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Part-Time Pay Penalty
Get a Public Life: Evaluation of the 2002 National Outreach Campaign
Equality, Opportunity and Choice: Tackling Occupational Segregation
The Cost of Domestic Violence: A report by Sylvia Walby (University of Leeds) September 2004
Gender Analysis of Expenditure Project (July 2004)
Towards Equal Pay: a consultation on proposals to streamline equal value tribunal procedures
Does Sex Make a Difference? An equalities resource for teachers and personal advisers
Diversity and difference: Minority ethnic mothers and childcare
Evaluation of Taster Days for Women Returners
Gender Briefings

Y COMISIWN MENYWOD A GWAITH “LLUNIO DYFODOL TECACH” (Executive Summary in Welsh)

Fairness For All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights – White paper (2004) To order, please quote URN 04 / 1072

Individual incomes of men and women 1996/97 to 2002/03: a summary (2004) To order, please quote URN 04/364

Individual Incomes 1996/97 - 2003/04

Individual Income 1996/97-2003/04 Standard Tables

Interim Update of Key Indicators of Women’s position in Britain To order, please quote URN 04/1917

The Cost of Domestic Violence: A report by Sylvia Walby (University of Leeds) September 2004 To order please quote URN 04/600

Key findings To order please quote URN 04/1559

Research summary To order please quote URN 04/1660

Women and Equality Unit: Women and Men in the Workplace (2004) downloaded only from the WEU Website www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk

Civil Partnership Update – Fact-sheet To order please quote URN 04/1286

Minority Ethnic Women in the UK (2004) downloaded only from the WEU Website www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk

Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Equality Card To order, please quote URN 04/1284

Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Equality Update – Fact sheet To order, please quote URN 04/1285

Get a Public Life: Women in Public Appointments (September 2004) – Factsheet. To order, please quote URN - 04/1585

The Gender Pay Gap in Great Britain (2004)

Part-Time Pay Penalty

This examines the large pay differential between full-time and part-time workingwomen in the UK. It assesses its cause and evolution over time and what policies might be used to address it. It compares UK performance in part-time work to that of EU countries. The report is by Prof Alan Manning and Dr Barbara Petrongolo (Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics). The Women and Equality Unit commissioned it.

Download full report ( PDF, 1028KB) To order, please quote URN – 04/1751

Download key findings (MS Word, 1024KB)

Download research summary (MS Word, 1034KB)

Get a Public Life: Evaluation of the 2002 National Outreach Campaign

This report is an evaluation of the 2002 Outreach Programme to increase the number of women in public appointments and research examining the barriers faced by women to holding public appointments.

Download full report ( PDF, 2381KB)

Download key findings ( PDF, 48KB) To order, please quote URN 04/1586

Download research summary ( PDF, 66KB) To order, please quote URN 04/1587

Download women in public appointments factsheets ( PDF, 109KB)

Equality, Opportunity and Choice: Tackling Occupational Segregation

Occupational segregation is one of the barriers which prevents women and men from fulfilling their potential in the labour market; and consequently contributes to the pay gap. This looks at how women can get fairer deal in the workplace and how to better draw on the skills and talents of potential workers.

Equality, Opportunity and Choice: Tackling Occupational Segregation To order, please quote URN– 04/1815

The Cost of Domestic Violence: A report by Sylvia Walby (University of Leeds) September 2004

Professor Walby's ground-breaking research of the cost of domestic violence. Click on domestic violence to access the report and accompanying fact sheets.

Gender Analysis of Expenditure Project (July 2004)

Gender analysis of expenditure is one tool within a wide-ranging school of analysis called gender budgeting. Gender budgeting provides a range of methodologies for analysis of expenditure and revenue streams by gender, enabling policy makers, analysts and Governments to understand any differential impacts on men and women, boys and girls of policy decisions. This pilot project demonstrates the value of gender analysis of expenditure in some areas.
Download full report ( PDF, 272KB)

Towards Equal Pay: a consultation on proposals to streamline equal value tribunal procedures

(March 2004)

A consultation on proposals to speed up and simplify the complex equal value tribunal cases. The consultation document seeks views on proposed new rules of procedure.

Towards Equal Pay: a consultation (MS Word, 197KB) To Order, please quote URN 04 / 714

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Does Sex Make a Difference? An equalities resource for teachers and personal advisers

(February 2004)

This pack is aimed at teachers, personal advisors and those who work with young people aged approximately 14 years old. Updated for 2004, the pack contains useful statistics and some general information on International Women's Day, women in the labour market, the gender pay gap, women's representation and domestic violence. To assist teachers we have also included a number of lesson plans to support each of the main topic areas.

Does Sex Make a Difference? (PDF, 378K) To order, please quote URN 04/501

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Diversity and difference: Minority ethnic mothers and childcare

(January 2004)

This report is the result of research commissioned by the Women and Equality Unit to increase understanding of how women in different minority ethnic groups make decisions about employment and childcare, and the extent to which childcare and other factors impact on their participation in the labour market.

To order a printed copy free of charge call 0870 1502500 or email publication@dti.gsi.gov.uk quoting URN 03/1026

Download full report ( PDF, 449KB)

Download report summary ( PDF, 38KB)

Download key findings ( PDF, 31KB)

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