Local government delegates back gender agenda

Local government delegates back call from the national women’s committee for a ‘gender agenda’ to level the playing field

Help fight back against the attack on the equality duty

You can help the fight back against attacks on the equality duty by asking your MP to ask them to sign an early day motion reaffirming commitment to the duty

Unemployment spells misery for thousands in the West Midlands

A slight fall in UK jobless figures masks a dismal picture for the West Midlands, says UNISON

Report gives a health check to question of equality

The report is in preparation for the examination of the UK government by the UN CEDAW committee in July 2013

UNISON attacks notion that new policies are for women

Fawcett Society says Queen’s Speech is “a false economy when we need the full talents and skills of or workface – men and women – contributing to growth”

New film about the General Strike has May Day screening

Mining communities in Scotland took part in a new film charting the impact of the General Strike on their lives, to be screened tonight in London

Organise for a world without sexism

Join hundreds of people from across the UK for a unique weekend of hands-on training in feminist activism

UNISON gives evidence to the equality duty review

Union says it has only been two years since the Public Sector Equality Duty came into force and this review is premature

There for You: domestic violence

UNISON offered a lifeline for a member who felt a prisoner in her own home

International Women’s Day – time to turn the tide for UK women

UNISON calls on government to start undoing the damage it has done to women

Report finds UK power concentrated in minority hands

The people who hold the most decision-making power are drawn from a very narrow section of the population, the report writes

‘Together in solidarity, nothing will stand in our way’

Dave Prentis urges delegates at UNISON women’s conference to continue the fight

Conference highlights ConDems’ ‘problem with women’

UNISON women’s conference speaks out against impact of austerity

‘I am scared, more and more scared’

Fear of impact of new universal credit on UNISON members and their families

Delegates condemn ‘male chauvinist, capitalist government’

UNISON women’s conference gives verdict on the coalition