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Publications

2008

A Statement by the Minister for Women and Equality

"Framework for a Fairer Future – the Equality Bill" , provides details of the Equality Bill and outlines the steps that will be taken to streamline and strengthen the law following Harriet Harman QC, MP's statement in Parliament on Thursday 26 June 2008.

Operation Black Vote: How To Achieve Better BME Political Representation

Operation Black Vote today released a report on how to achieve better political representation for people from BME communities. Full report available here.

Ethnic Minority Women: Routes to Power

The report Ethnic Minority Women: Routes to Power sets out findings from research commissioned to the Fawcett Society into ethnic minority women’s routes into, through and out of decision-making positions. The research explored the key barriers and challenges ethnic minority women can face, the strategies they employ to overcome and handle these, what they bring to organisations, and the steps that are needed to increase ethnic minority women’s access to positions of power.

Routes to Power: Summary of Research

Ethnic Minority Women: Routes to Power (Full Report)

Equality and Diversity in LAAs: An Aide Memoir for Locality Managers

The Local Government White Paper "Strong and Prosperous Communities" published in October 2006 set out the arrangements for delivering new Local Area Agreements (LAAs). LAAs are intended to simplify central funding to local authorities, help join-up public services more effectively and allow much greater flexibility for local solutions to local circumstances. They will set out the priorities for a local area that are agreed with central government, the local authority and other key partners at the local level. Informed consideration of equalities as part of this process is essential if no group or place is to be left behind. This document, developed jointly by the Government Equalities Office and the Government Office Network, is an aide memoir for locality managers in Government Offices to use when considering LAAs from an equalities perspective. Please click here for the document.

Tackling Violence Against Women: A Cross-Government Narrative

This report draws together work being done across Government to tackle violence against women and responds to the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition’s annual Making the Grade survey. To view the report, please click here.

Women Not For Sale

The report Women Not For Sale sets out findings from research commissioned to establish the scale of advertising of women and services offered by women in personal classifieds in the English regional and local press. The research found that the advertising of women, either discreetly or overtly, for sex or sexual services in the regional press is commonplace. Typically, these advertisements are sandwiched between innocuous advertisements for other services and goods. For more information, click here.