In January 2016, the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities launched an inquiry into Employment opportunities for Muslims in the UK. The deadline for written submissions was 28 February 2016.
The Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) published its annual report for 2015/16 in August 2016.
The Trades Union Congress produced guidance, ‘Combatting racist abuse in the workplace: A TUC guide to protecting migrant and Black and Minority Ethnic workers from violence, harassment and abuse’, in August 2016.
The Trades Union Congress published a report in August 2016, ‘Managing migration better for Britain: What the government should be doing now’.
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.
The Nobel Women’s Initiative have published a July 2016 article on Brexit – stating that Britain’s decision to withdraw from the European Union could jeopardize the stability of women’s rights in the UK.
‘Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations. Women Working in Construction and Transport’ by Tessa Wright was published by Palgrove in 2016.
The Trade Union Council released a press release on 13 July 2016 following polling they had conducted on voters’ opinions on Brexit. The poll showed that both Remain and Leave voters supporting maintaining vital rights like maternity leave (73% of Remain and 69% of Leave voters) and maintaining protection against discrimination at work (80% of Remain voters and 77% of Leave voters).
Brexit is both a negative and positive for women engineers, says Dr Sarah Peers, Vice President of the Women’s Engineering Society, in July 2016.
Susan Millns from the University of Sussex asks in a 2016 article whether Brexit has different implications for women and men.
