The Fawcett Society
Kat BanyardCampaigns Officer, Fawcett [email protected]
ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Straight-jacketed
Excluded from power
X chromosome discrimination
Impoverishment
Sexual exploitation
Money Gap
IN THE CITY
Straight-jacketed
UK full-time employees work the longest hours in the EU
Excluded from power
Only 11% of FTSE 100 company directors are women
X chromosome discrimination
Every year 30,000 women lose their jobs in the UK
simply for being pregnant
Impoverishment
Poverty has a female face:
Two thirds of low paid workers are women
Sexual exploitation
There are over 300 lapdance clubs operating in the UK
Money gap
Women working full-time earn on average 17% less
than men
POLITICAL RIGHTS
BODILY RIGHTSthe right to live free from violence
GOVERNMENTEconomic Rights• Mandatory pay audits• Extend the right to work flexibly to all• End the EU opt out of the Working Time Directive
Political Rights• Women-only short lists
Bodily Rights• License lapdance clubs as Sex Encounter Establishments• Fully find a rape crisis centre in every area• National 24 hour helpline for victims of rape
BUSINESSEconomic Rights• Conduct pay audits• Pay all employees a living wage• Implement and promote flexible working at every level• Challenge cultures that discriminate against and stereotype wpmen
Bodily Rights• Don’t fund lapdance clubs by utilising them in corporate entertaining
FAWCETT SOCIETYWe are the UK’s leading campaign for equality between women and men. We trace our roots back to 1866, when Millicent Fawcett began to campaign for women’s votes
How we work• Campaigning for legislative change• Influencing practice for institutional change• Empowering women and men for grassroots change
FAWCETT campaignsEconomic Rights• Sexism and the City• Motherhood penalty campaign• Women’s No Pay Day: 30th October
Political Rights• Seeing Double • Her Vote
Bodily Rights• Justice for victims of rape
YOU!
www.fawcettsociety.org.uk
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