RT @mbmpolicy: If this petition can also reach 10,000 supporters, we hope that will help it stand out and reduce the risk that it is rejected at the first stage, particularly if the Committee receives any representations urging it not to take further ...
RT @mbmpolicy: With almost 7,750 signatures in a week, the level of interest in this petition is already unusually high. Only 3 of the 44 petitions under consideration by the Committee at the moment received more than 10,000 signatures.
RT @mbmpolicy: THREAD: Why getting as many signatures as possible on this petition improves the chances of it getting proper attention by the Scottish Parliament. https://t.co/Wcyr1o...
Worthy of Respect in a Democratic Society!
RT @CroneInAMillion: Putting pronouns in email signatures is particularly annoying to me because it disadvantages women by flagging our sex. My sex shouldn't matter at all in a work environment, but I'm aware that it does, particularly when working ...
RT @LabWomenDec: Helpful myth-buster from @Womans_Place_UK. Lots of good starting points here for moving the discussion forward: we ask @UKLabour to engage, and get beyond cliches, distortions and hyperbolic misrepresentations of feminist arguments. ...
RT @ShonaghDillon: I love the women @Womans_Place_UK when under attack and totally misrepresented they always respond with a intelligence and reasoned discourse. It’s a great way to debate. Many could learn from their position. https://t.co/x3428J...
WPUK Mythbusters - A response to the IRR and others - Woman's Place UK
There have been several articles and comments published recently, including one by the @IRR_News which attempt to discredit ‘gender critical’ feminism. Here is our response to those accusations. https://t.co/BSVqhn...
Zero-hours contracts ‘trapping women of colour on low pay‘
RT @whywomen: ⏰ 1 WEEK TO GO ⏰ Applications for the Black & Minoritised Women's Fund open on 21 June. Get to know the fund this Friday 18 June at an info session. https://t.co/j9GJnf... Tag a Black & minoritised women's organisation who ...
RT @fawcettsociety: Women of colour are almost twice as likely to be on zero-hour contracts as white men and almost one and a half times more likely than white women, according to new research. https://t.co/VQhQss...
Atala Apodaca Anaya (1884-1977) Mexican. Teacher. Helped start the Centro Radical Femenino, El Iconoclasta newspaper & iconoclasta Sunday schools. Promoted secular education as a tool for social transformation. Travelled Mexico with Belén de Sárraga ...
Atala Apodaca Anaya (1884-1977) Mexican. Teacher. Helped start the Centro Radical Femenino, El Iconoclasta newspaper & iconoclasta Sunday schools. Promoted secular education as a tool for social transformation. Travelled Mexico with Belén de ...
RT @hannahsbee: Sonia Appleby’s employment tribunal against the Tavistock and Portman Trust begins today. Ms Appleby is the Trust’s Safeguarding Lead for Children. Details of her claim emerged after Newsnight reported staff at GIDS claimed they’d ...
RT @rebelyarns: A piece I wrote in 2019 about why phrases like "pregnant people" hinder the endless fight for women's reproductive freedom https://t.co/znhBh0... Every woman, whether or not she ever has or ever will need an abortion, is more free in ...
RT @mbmpolicy: Now 7,416: already high for a Scottish Parliament petition. Please help it get to 7,500 by tomorrow morning, one week since it was lodged. https://t.co/yn2dyC...
RT @RahilaG: '@Womans_Place_UK https://t.co/8sKWlE...
Thread with links to full film of webinar and shorter films of each panellist #WPUK #WomensRightsAreHum... https://t.co/uYrW5r...
RT @RahilaG: Marriage laws in Britain being modernised with little public discussion but #lawsociety consultation misses opportunity to protect women in religious marriages @MaryamNamazie @GitaSahgal @RehmanYasmin https://t.co/jTG01W...
Trans rights, women’s rights and open debate – weekly briefing
“To argue ‘there is no debate’ as some trans activists have, is simply a denial of reality – there is a debate, both among trans people and in the wider society. It can only benefit us all to conduct it properly.” @LindseyAGerman @counterfireorg ...
RT @cathydevine56: 'Women also make up the majority of trade union members; and yet LGBT committees within unions have been able to impose policy that entirely fails to recognise the balance of rights between trans people and women.' ...
Thread https://t.co/faTs3X...
RT @Mocha_Soul: Thread: This was an excellent conversation. Do watch the videos (all linked to in thread) when you get the chance. https://t.co/4zk7Pp...