Women's Equality
The TUC campaigns for women's equality in the workplace and in the wider community. Here you can find recent information and materials on the work of the TUC in the following areas:
· Abortion Rights
· Childcare
· Violence Against Women
· Equal
pay
· Parents
and Carers
· Part
Time Workers
· Poverty
· TUC Women's
conference
Gender
And Occupational Safety And Health section is focussed on a gender-sensitive
approach to occupational health and safety and ensuring equal rights to protection
for all workers.
The most recent documents available on this subject are:
Pay gap narrowing but still unacceptably high
Responding to the annual pay figures published today (Thursday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
12 November 2009
Women have waited long enough for equal pay
Responding to the 2009 launch of the Fawcett Society's ‘No Pay Day' today (Friday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
30 October 2009
TUC response to Women and Work Commission report
Commenting on the Women and Work Commission report published today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
29 July 2009
'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
Brendan Barber speech to TUC Women's Conference 2009
This economic crisis was created by a small number of male bankers; and ordinary women should not be made to pay the penalty for their recklessness.
12 March 2009
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