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Labour Conference 2025: Why Women’s Equality Can’t Be an Afterthought At Labour Conference 2025, violence against women, sexism in the press, AI’s impact on the gender pay gap, and the rise of the far right were on the agenda. The Fawcett Society explains why women’s eq...

Labour Conference was a battle of the male egos.

Women's charities keep turning up. Keep asking questions. Despite being sidelined.

Some thoughts on www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/labour-...

Labour promised women better, safer lives: a year on, we decode the small wins and biggest let downs We’re 365 days into Keir Starmer’s government and I don’t know a single woman who feels their life is better off...

We @fawcettsociety.bsky.social partnered up with Cosmopolitan to look at what Labour achieved for women & girls in its first 12 months.

Spoiler alert: not enough

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

UK slides down women’s health rankings for fourth year in a row Britain now sits 41 out of 142 countries in the Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, an annual league table based on surveys of 78,000 women worldwide

Depressing league table to be plummeting down...the 10 Year NHS Plan is meant to be published this week - here is hoping women's health is prioritised. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Thank goodness those 'over emotional' women aren't in charge. 🙄

James Argent declares he's 'feeling good' as he performs after assault conviction The TOWIE star received a suspended jail sentence earlier this month

We need male allies.

Maybe men to tell this TOWIE guy that doing club nights 48 hours after assaulting his girlfriend isn't right. And it's not about HIM and how "good" he feels.

Instead we have men on stage saying what a good guy he is.

Standing by your friends is not done by enabling them.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” Reflects the Exhaustion of Liberal Feminism What’s most striking about the show, now in its final season, is not its hysteria but its lack of conviction.

I wrote about the final season of "The Handmaid's Tale" and #Resistance feminism in retrospect, for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

🚨This World Social Work Day, we’re launching our campaign: #SocialWorkMatters. ⬇️

We want everyone with severe mental health needs to have access to a mental health social worker.

Here's why ⬇️
https://bit.ly/41YkIoS

#WorldSocialWorkDay #SocialWorkWeek2025 #SocialWork #MentalHealth

YouTube video by ITV News Jess Phillips reads names of UK women killed by men last year, including the Hunt family | ITV News

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Sadly, another year when @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social reads the list of women killed by men. Tragic BUT Jess now taking real tangible actions to reduce this number. No one has more passion for this challenge.

One in eight women killed by men are over 70, report reveals Lack of media focus and specialist services mean abuse of older women often hidden, the campaign group Femicide Census says One in eight women killed by men in the last 15 years were aged over 70, figures show, with a specialist charity reporting a…

One in eight women killed by men are over 70, report reveals

👩‍🍳 “My sous chef pressed me up against a corner as he was correcting me on my mise en place and asked me if I could feel his d--k on my leg”

As 70 female chefs speak out about the sexism and inequality they have faced in kitchens, is the culinary world having its MeToo moment?

‘Prison will never be a safe place to be pregnant’ – campaigner We spoke to Janey Starling, from the feminist campaign group Level Up, and former prison governor Pia Sinha, who now heads the Prison Reform Trust.

"We need to see an end to the imprisonment of pregnant women."

@cathynewman.bsky.social asks Janey Starling, from Level Up, and Pia Sinha, from the Prison Reform Trust, how troubling it is that women are still giving birth while handcuffed.

Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/prison-...

People from ethnic minority backgrounds are spending a greater share of their incomes on housing, and getting poorer quality homes in return.

@feliciao.bsky.social explains what we know ⤵️

Army mishandled sex assault before Jaysley Beck's death - inquest Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanged in her room at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire in December 2021.

Only 19 years old.

Jaysley was failed in so many ways.

BBC News - Army mishandled sex assault before death - coroner
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Better mental health care around pregnancy exists – I’ve seen it. Why aren’t all women getting it? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett The tragic loss of a mother of three highlights how widespread perinatal mental illness is – and that care is patchy and underfunded, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

"The MMHA and @rcm.org.uk say that there are stark variations in the levels of care... They and @laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social want to prevent women at risk from slipping through the cracks by making mental health support fully embedded into routine maternity care." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mental health patients with nowhere to go cost NHS £71m in England, report finds Accommodation shortages caused 109,000 days of delayed discharge in 2023-24, says National Housing Federation

This was the biggest challenge when supporting a close friend to leave hospital - there was nowhere for him to go. He was too ill for most supported accomodation, and yet the local authority suggested 'you should try SpareRoom.com'.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Mental health patients with nowhere to go cost NHS £71m in England, report finds Accommodation shortages caused 109,000 days of delayed discharge in 2023-24, says National Housing Federation

In my 35 years in #mentalhealth poor #housing or a lack of has always been the thing that causes significant and enduring harm. Supported accommodation that is safe and close to one’s community is too hard to find. This is an important piece of research 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

While the Planning Guidance recognises mental health as a priority, it offers no additional funding for MH services to address rising levels of need. We urgently need the Government to invest in our mental health in the upcoming Spending Review to create a mentally healthier future.

Kanye West Has Surprise Arrival at Grammys as Wife Bianca Censori Shocks With Nude Outfit Reveal Kanye West has returned to the Grammys, and his wife Bianca Censori removed her fur coat on the red carpet, revealing a nude outfit.

The way he is stood there fully dressed as she disrobes. It's the kind of thing we will (hopefully) look back on in 50 years time in shock. Everyone taking photographs of a naked woman under the apparent instruction from her husband. Horrendous.

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