The Joseph Rowntree Foundation launched its anti-poverty strategy, ‘We can solve poverty in the UK’, in September 2016. The report makes clear the many links between poverty and protected characteristics, most notably the disproportionate way poverty affects women, BME and disabled people, and single parents.
The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No.11) Order 2016 (SI 839/2016) brought section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 into force on 22 August 2016.
The Welsh Government’s consultation on a National Strategy on Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence closed on 10 October 2016.
On 18 August 2016, the Government Equalities Office published a consultation on ‘Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting – Public Sector Employers’. The consultation ran from 18 August to 30 September.
Close the Gap is a partnership project working in Scotland on women’s participation in the labour market. The project works with employers, employees and policymakers to enable and encourage action to address the causes of women’s inequality at work.
Still just a bit of banter? Sexual harassment in the workplace in 2016 was published by the TUC in association with the Everyday Sexism Project in 2016.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies published a briefing note on the gender wage gap in August 2016. The briefing note is the first output in a programme of work by the IFS seeking to understand the gender wage gap and its relationship to poverty.
In August 2016, Compass published an article on the gendered cost of Brexit.
The Women and Equalities Committee is holding an inquiry into Women in the House of Commons after the 2020 Election. The deadline for written submissions was Monday 12 September 2016.
The Scottish Government published a report, ‘New Perspectives on the Gender Pay Gap: Trends and Drivers’, in June 2016. The report explains the different measures of the pay gap, breaking it down by age, sector and occupation and considers how it has been changing over time.
