Women and Men Equal Rights
Here you can find recent TUC material on sex equality, equal pay, rights and part timer's rights. You can find older material using the search facility. There is also material on women in the labour market in our employment research area. If you want to find our about your rights at work and how discrimination law might help you then you can visit our rights area.
The TUC has an annual women's conference which elects a women's committee.
The TUC works closely with the Equal Opportunities Commission www.eoc.org.uk. Their site contains much further relevant information.
The most recent documents available on this subject are:
'Together we can end violence against women and girls': TUC response to the Home Office Consultation on violence against women
The TUC welcomed the recognition by the Government within this consultation on the need for an integrated strategy and the use of the UN definition of VAW. The TUC went on to express concern about the consultation's silence on issues relating to violence in the workplace and stated that sustainable, long term, funding continues to be a big barrier in delivering adequate provision and delivery of support services for women experiencing violence.
18 June 2009
Negotiating Gender, Race and Class - the Way Forward
In 2008, the TUC Race Relations Committee and Women's Committee organised a one-day seminar for black women trade union activists. The seminar set out to discuss issues that black women face in the labour market, prioritise the issues that trade unions need to raise on their behalf and create a trade union agenda that represents and speaks on behalf of black women workers. This new TUC report, ‘Negotiating Gender, Race and Class' sets out to capture the issues discussed, and the recommendations made, by participants.
30 March 2009
TUC response to EHRC ‘Sex and Power' survey
Responding to the annual ‘Sex and Power' survey, published today (Thursday) by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
4 September 2008
Same-Sex Parenting and the HFE Bill
The TUC is firmly opposed to any attempts to re-introduce the ‘the need for a father' when decisions regarding access to IVF are made and considers it to be discriminatory. The TUC welcomes the Government's suggested replacement of requiring evidence of “supportive parenting” within the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which rightly places child welfare as the central consideration.
9 May 2008
Unions in London urge support for a ‘Ring of Democracy' around City Hall
The TUC has called for Londoners to support the formation of a symbolic ‘Ring of Democracy' around City Hall. The event will be held at lunchtime, 28 April, and will express the participant's belief that it is vital to keep the far-right out of London's governance. (Assemble from 12.45pm, event at 1pm, concludes by 1.30pm).
15 April 2008
Closing the Gender Pay Gap
An update report for TUC Women's Conference 2008. This report uses official data and recent research into the gender pay gap to examine the position of women within the labour market and the causes of the continuing pay inequity they experience.
PDF version available for download
11 March 2008
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