A call to action on Legal Aid

The Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill will return to Parliament on 17th April with an unprecedented 11 significant amendments from the Lords and Government concessions. Clearly indicating the Lords distaste, at what the Law…

Remploy: right principle, wrong time

The UK Government’s decision to close 5 out of 7 of Wales’s Remploy plants is the right principle, being implemented at the wrong time. For decades, equality groups have argued that disabled people who can work should…

Still reaching for equality

For women, trade union membership is as relevant today as ever. Women in the workplace have still not reached a position of equality and sadly, the current economic challenges look set to turn the clock back…

Social Enterprise a Natural Home for Women

The depressing news that women’s unemployment levels in the UK have reached a 25 year high is brought into even sharper focus by International Women’s Day.

At times like this women are, out of necessity, driven…

International Women’s Day: Unfinished Business

The Equality and Human Rights Commission have produced an update of ‘Who runs Wales?’ for International Women’s Day 2012 which reminds us there is unfinished business if we are serious about achieving gender equality…

Round in circles?

This Thursday morning in Committee Room 3 of the Senedd will mark the latest instalment in the long running story of wheelchair services in Wales. The Health and Social Care Committee are holding a one day inquiry…

The housing case for a greater focus on gender

I have very fond memories of a women and housing conference held at Coleg Harlech in the early 1990s. Back in those days, there were two national level women and housing groups in Wales…

A Sporting Chance

Women and girls in sport is a topic of huge importance to us at Sport Wales. Our role is to promote sport and activity for all people in Wales – boys and girls, men and women.

However,…

Progress, Not Process

Making sure the Violence Against Women Bill delivers for women in Wales: Violence against women is a hidden social epidemic and the most life-threatening form of gender inequality facing women in Wales…

Warning for Wales as G20 Inequality Rises

Even if we can save the global economy from its current crisis, a new Oxfam report shows how the proceeds of growth are still often failing to reach the poor, and how the negative impacts of unsustainable…