Everywoman - the myth of the work life balance

In early 2019 business owner Annie Browne was asked to speak at an event about work life balance. She told her audience she doesn’t believe there is any such thing. Here she shares her tips on achieving something even better – a work-life blend. https://www.everywoman-selfmade.com/inspired/top-tips/the-myth-of-the-work-life-balance

Talking About UK Poverty Toolkit

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We’ve taken the launch of our new UK Poverty report as an opportunity to release a new edition of our Talking About Poverty toolkit. This straightforward guide gives you the key messages from our latest content and findings and is designed to support you – our friends and allies campaigning to turn the tide on UK poverty – to prepare a quality response, tell a well-framed story on the issues you’re concerned about, and join us to call for action. Together, we can be a collective voice for change that’s impossible to ignore.

What Next for Activate

The Activate Team plan to follow up on their North East launch events in Middlesbrough and Newcastle.

"We hope the events provided you with a source of energy - energy that we’d love for you to channel into Activate! Help us champion female community activists to stand for office. Help us renew politics so that it is more reflective of the society we live in. It is time! Here are the things you can do to help:

UK Somalis 'racially profiled' over FGM

Parents are wrongly being arrested and having their children taken into care due to the stigma around female genital mutilation (FGM), members of the UK Somali community have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. They say figures suggesting tens of thousands of girls are at risk in the UK are inaccurate.

"Social services with the police came to the house, removed our children and arrested my wife. We didn't know what the allegations were - nobody said anything, nobody asked us anything, it was just really a shock," said Yusef - not his real name.

Are the Equality Act 2010 and CEDAW working for the women’s voluntary & community sector in England?

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In March 2019, the CEDAW Committee published a set of recommendations on how the UK could better protect and promote women's rights. The UK and devolved governments have until 2023 to implement these recommendations before they must report back to the UN on progress made, although three overarching recommendations and one surrounding Brexit must be reported on in 2021.

Invitation to join Community-based arts and menopause project

Karen Ross, Professor of Gender and Media at Newcastle University has shared an invitationto participate in a community-based arts-health project which is focused around story-telling the menopause experience and ‘creating’ that experience through knitting, textiles, ceramics, painting or anything else that we can get hold of.

International Women's Day Pop-Up Choir

6 Mar 2020 - 10:00

Armstrong Building Claremont Road Newcastle Tyne & Wear NE1 7RU

Gender, Violence and Abuse Research Network (GVARN) Seminar - Children and Violence

29 Jan 2020 - 15:00

Lipman 232 Northumbria University

Gender Equality Peer Educator Vacancies - West End Women and Girls

We are very excited to announce we have received 2-year funding from Paul Hamlyn Act for Change fund to employ two young women as gender equality peer educators. We have two full time posts available and are now taking applications. The role will involve working with other young women and girls to tackle gender inequality and to joyfully Smash the Patriarchy. The deadline for applications is the 31^st January 2020. Please request forms and return completed applications to laura.christer@westendwomenandgirls.co.uk

Four Nation Approach to tackling Workplace Sexual Harassment

Women's organisations from across the four nations of the UK have come together to collaborate on a project which will tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, funded by Rosa and the Justice and Equality Fund Now’s the Time programme.

North East Women's Network

Collaboration and partnership