POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Feb 5, 2019

Smear test: please go for yours

Cervical cancer currently claims two lives every day in the UK. Almost half of women (44.2 per cent) questioned in a recent survey were unaware what a cervix is, and were unable to correctly identify it as the neck of the womb (uterus). And one in six could not name a single function of the cervix. Less than half (41.40 per cent) were aware that it connects the womb to the vagina, and only one in three knew that it provided a seal to hold the baby in during pregnancy. Jo’s Cervical Cancer...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Jan 24, 2019

Join roadside protest for pension rights

On your local ‘A’ road. Every Saturday. Shoulder2Shoulder have initiated this protest so that women can mobilise their friends, family and neignbours to develop local solidarity with everyone else who has paid into the National Insurance Fund in good faith, only to find out that governments have misled us about our expected entitlements. That includes miners, police officers, judges, prison officers, teachers, all public sector workers – and our children, who are forced to pay...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Jun 12, 2018

Does your council say gender instead of sex

Sex is a protected characteristic. Not gender: sex. Two different things. The Equality Act (2010) identifies 9 protected characteristics. They are: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sex and sexual orientation. These protected characteristics exist to ensure that everyone is treated equally and fairly and to guard against discrimination. It is important that these protected characteristics are correctly...