Speaker’s Conference report and responses
16 March 2010
The Speaker’s Conference published its final report on 11 January 2010.
The Speaker’s Conference published its final report on 11 January 2010.
The Fawcett Society published a report in February 2010 examining the experiences of ethnic minority women as workers, offenders and victims within the criminal justice system.
In November 2009 the Government Equalities Office (GEO) published ‘Increasing Diversity on Public and Private Sector Boards’.
‘Poverty pathways: ethnic minority women’s livelihoods’ looks at why ethnic minority women as a group experience considerably higher rates of poverty than White women in the UK.
‘Lifts and Ladders: resolving ethnic minority women’s exclusion from power’ looks at why ethnic minority women are excluded from power in the UK.
Women in the South West are vastly under-represented in the region’s top positions of power and influence across the public and private sectors, according to research carried out by the South West TUC and Equality South West.
‘Map of Gaps 2. The postcode lottery of Violence Against Women support services in Britain’ was published by End Violence Against Women (EVAW) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission in January 2009.
The judgement by Lord Justice Moses in the case of Southall Black Sisters and London Borough of Ealing was published on 29 July 2008.
The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee published its report on ‘Domestic Violence, Forced Marriage and “Honour”-Based Violence’ on 13 June 2008.
Fawcett published the final report of its ‘Routes to Power’ research study on ethnic minority women leaders in May 2008.