How do you keep a large parliamentary party in line? Sienna Rodgers digs into Labour's job creation scheme for back benchers. Illustrations by Trac...

An independent review by Professor Alice Sullivan that looks at data, statistics and research on sex and gender.

Intergenerational wealth is a big factor when it comes to identifying who may be at risk of living in pensioner poverty, according to Daniella Jenkins, policy adviser at the Women’s Budget Group.

Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs of Police criticize blanket clemency to 1,500

Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

Introduction This blog traces how Police Scotland appears to be quietly retreating from a promise made to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), and indirectly, through the SPA, to the Scottish Parliame...

Adolescents suffer from an image problem. Matilda Gosling’s Teenagers: The Evidence Base looks at the facts to dispel unhelpful stereotypes.

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We have written today to the Chief Executive of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, following its ruling that the use of the phrase “a man who claims to be a woman” in this Spectator article...

A hearing at the Supreme Court exposed just how flawed its position on gender recognition is.

Introduction Next week the case of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers will be heard in the UK Supreme Court. It will decide the definitions of ‘sex’, ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in the Equality Act 20...

Statement of Case for the Scottish Ministers and Lord Advocate to the Supreme Court regarding the For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) hearing.

This briefing can be downloaded as a pdf here. What will the Supreme Court consider? Who counts as a woman? The Court will need to decide whether acquiring a GRC: What is the current legal position? T...

The Modernisation Committee has been set up to “consider reforms to House of Commons procedures, standards, and working practices.” 

Introduction Later this month – on 26 and 27 November – justices at the UK Supreme Court will hear the case of For Women Scotland versus the Scottish Ministers. The case is an appeal, following a ruli...

Momodou Keita is back on patrol after his work triggered a debate over female genital mutilation that convulsed Gambia and drew broad international attention.

Campaigners have criticised Police Scotland after the force told MSPs allowing individuals charged or convicted of rape or attempted rape to…

Today we are publishing a report on the Athena Swan Charter scheme, which we prepared on behalf of the Women’s Equality and Inequality Programme at Oxford University. Our analysis, undertaken in 2023,...

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Historians are piecing together the trajectories of the French Huguenots, eastern European Jews and Bangladeshis who found refuge in Spitalfields — and finally opening the doors to a museum reflecting...

The Taliban may try to silence the voices of women and girls, but the international community must not be allowed to ignore them too

Abstract. Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs with family formation. We estim