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Equalities Bill: Methinks he doth protest too much

You have to worry when there is so much fuss about reporting on gender pay. I repeat the word ‘reporting’. The new Equalities Bill will require companies with over 250 staff to report on how much they pay their staff so that discrepancies between the sexes can be identified. The rationale is that this will [...]

Bringing progressive women together

Progressive Women aims to bring women together to explore issues we’re commonly interested in and support each other in politics and economy. We just want to share with you some of the exciting existing sites out there for women that we can tap into.

Here is a flavour of sites that exist already:

www.womeninlondon.org.uk
Women in London [...]

So much to talk about

We’ve had some great suggestions about topics for future meetings from you all. A few of them are below and we’d really love to hear what you think of them and whether there’s anything else you want to talk about.

• Choice – do women really have choice? About abortion, about family planning, about when [...]

What you need to know

Thanks to everyone who came to the meeting on Tuesday night. It was great to see so many progressive women come together to talk about the issues that really matter to us.

Nicola said that the one thing we could all do right now would be to make sure we and other women we know [...]