Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts. Labour women are coming together at a crucial time to discuss the fact that women are being hit twice as hard as men by the tax and welfare changes being brought in by this Government. Changes to women’s pensi...

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts.

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Deputy Leader, in a speech to Labour's Women's Conference, said: I'm delighted to see you all here today and excited to hear all you've got to say. It is right to remind ourselves why we are meeting as women, as Labour women, today. It is because we want to meet together as women, party members, MEPs, MPs, councillors, trade union women, Labour ...

The Church of England is making heavy weather of women bishops. Of course they had to approve women bishops. They made the crucial decision when they voted for women priests. It makes no sense to say that women can hold any pastoral position

A group of women are holding a protest tomorrow morning in London against what they call an abuse of women by police spies. Really, I don’t. Women in the UK should not have to worry about being sexually abused by policemen. It is as simple as that. In response, we call for women to come

Last week, to mark International Women’s Day, Sara Azmeh Rasmussen, a Norwegian of Syrian origin burned her hijab in protest of the oppression of women in Islam. This is a small but significant gesture by a small group of women. But as this short film reminds us, 30 years ago, many thousands of women were mobilised in revolt.

Yes, women take longer, yes, women go more often. Thus for an equal number of men and women at a venue there should be 2 female stations for one male. The British Toilet Association is campaigning – too quietly, perhaps – for public facilities to uphold a 2:1 ratio of women’s to men’s loos. They haven’t

There’s still a shocking absence of women from the top in politics and leadership roles across society. We can all see that for ourselves. Progressive Women set out to bring women together to discuss issues of inequality, and to network. In the two years since we were established it’s become blatant to us that we

The president does not understand the difference between women's human rights and the subordination of women in the name of religion.