29 women's organisations have come together to make a statement to UK politicians about their priority issues for women and girls in the lead-in to the General Election.

This research and findings were collated by organisations who work with and for young women nationally.  
Funded by the Big Lottery Community Fund - Womens and Girls Fund and we worked with CWASU, DMSS, The Tavistock Insitute 
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Three pieces of newly published research to understand the barriers to progression faced by women in the workplace and what works for employers to overcome them

1. Employment pathways and occupational change after childbirth

Last year Rosa, the UK Fund for women and girls, spent time pondering the question: what could the UK look like in 10 years' time, if greater attention is paid to tackling gender inequality? It's a huge topic, so they zoomed in on the theme of work, looking at the part-time economy, pregnancy discrimination, the gender pay gap, and sexual harassment. The result has now been produced in a report, The Future of Gender Equality in the UK.

While political blackness seems to be making quite a comeback, this resurgence has also met with frustration and ambivalence. This paper aims to make sense of why this mobilising concept is accepted in some contemporary black feminist circles and outright rejected in others. It unpicks the diasporic dimensions of political blackness, reflecting on the issues that converged to foreground ‘black’ as the basis for mobilising women of African and Asian decent to engage in collective activism.