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Women are under-represented in film – why the BFI needs to be held to account: Deirdre O’Neill

Filmmaker Deirdre O’Neill, who co-ordinates the Inside Film project, argues that the British Film Institute needs to do much more to tackle the barriers to women’s participation The relationship...

Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case: Elizabeth Hungerford

Elizabeth Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She identifies as a feminist, lives as a lesbian, is a longtime observer and sometime...

Legally this is not a ‘trans rights issue’ it’s a ‘sex rights issue’ – a blog about boxes: Audrey Ludwig

Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. The way the issue is portrayed by lobbyists, most politicians, many corporates and the media, is legally wrong. The “trans rights debate”,...

2020 WPUK submission Labour Party Policy Forum: work, pensions and equality

This is the submission we made to the Labour Party Policy Forum 2020 on work pensions and equlity. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to Labour’s national policy forum...

Labour Campaign for Trans Rights letter to Catherine West MP: WPUK response

On 24th June 2020, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) drafted a letter addressed to Catherine West, Labour MP for Haringey and Wood Green calling on her not...

House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee Transgender Inquiry: A critique

This article has been republished here by permission of the authors. It was originally published on the Women Analysing Policy on Women website on 6th June 2017. A critique...

A fork in the road? Comparing plans for gender recognition reform across the UK

Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie are co-founders of the policy analysis collective MurrayBlackburnMackenzie. Over the weekend, it was reported that the UK Government is scrapping...

Dear Zarah Sultana: an open letter

On 5th June Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, tweeted screenshots of a letter she had written to Liz Truss MP. In that letter, Ms Sultana wrote about “attempts...

WPUK response to Sunday Times story on GRA consultation outcome

Today the Sunday Times reports that the government, following consultation, has rejected reform of the Gender Recognition Act to permit sex self-identification. There has been no formal announcement but,...

EqualiTeach and the Government Equalities Office

This post was updated on 13th May 2020 with the response we received from the Government Equalities Office. We became aware early last week of a resource, Free to...

Woman’s Place UK submission to Women & Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into Covid-19

About us Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) is a grassroots feminist campaign which was formed by a group of women in the labour and trade union movement to uphold women’s...

WPUK response to Liz Truss statement to Women & Equalities Committee

We welcome the statement made by Liz Truss MP, the Minister for Women and Equalities, earlier this week in which she set out the priorities for the Government Equalities...

Democracy, sex-based rights and a sex-based pandemic: Raquel Rosario Sanchez

Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women and is currently pursuing a PhD...

Analysis of responses to consultation on the implementation of the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act 2018

Earlier this month, the Scottish Government published its analysis of the responses it received to its consultation on the implementation of the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act 2018....

Coronavirus: Urgent actions needed to tackle domestic and sexual violence

The Coronavirus crisis has thrown a spotlight on the very high levels of domestic abuse and male violence against women and girls in our society. The crisis will also...

Dear Keir…

Dear Keir, We are the co-founders of Woman’s Place UK and we are all members of the Labour Party. We have been horrified at the way the concerns we...

IPSO Consultation: Editorial standards in coverage of transgender issues

We believe that newspapers should be able to identify someone by their biological sex in stories where not do so would be nonsensical or confusing to the reader. This...

WPUK Response to the Communications and Digital Committee Enquiry: The Future of Journalism

This is the text of our submission to the UK parliament’s Communications and Digital Committee Enquiry on the future of journalism. About Woman’s Place UK Woman’s Place UK (WPUK)...

WPUK Guidance for the Scottish Government’s consultation on reform of the GRA

The Scottish Government is consulting on its proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA). It published a draft bill and consultation paper in December 2019. The deadline...

Women have a right to single-sex toilets

WPUK is pleased to hear reports that the Government has asserted the statutory and ethical rights for women to have access to single-sex toilets. The provision of single-sex public...

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