The Fawcett Society

Kat BanyardCampaigns Officer, Fawcett SocietyKat.banyard@fawcettsociety.org.uk

ECONOMIC RIGHTS

Straight-jacketed

Excluded from power

X chromosome discrimination

Impoverishment

Sexual exploitation

Money Gap

IN THE CITY

Straight-jacketed

UK full-time employees work the longest hours in the EU

Excluded from power

Only 11% of FTSE 100 company directors are women

X chromosome discrimination

Every year 30,000 women lose their jobs in the UK

simply for being pregnant

Impoverishment

Poverty has a female face:

Two thirds of low paid workers are women

Sexual exploitation

There are over 300 lapdance clubs operating in the UK

Money gap

Women working full-time earn on average 17% less

than men

POLITICAL RIGHTS

BODILY RIGHTSthe right to live free from violence

GOVERNMENTEconomic Rights• Mandatory pay audits• Extend the right to work flexibly to all• End the EU opt out of the Working Time Directive

Political Rights• Women-only short lists

Bodily Rights• License lapdance clubs as Sex Encounter Establishments• Fully find a rape crisis centre in every area• National 24 hour helpline for victims of rape

BUSINESSEconomic Rights• Conduct pay audits• Pay all employees a living wage• Implement and promote flexible working at every level• Challenge cultures that discriminate against and stereotype wpmen

Bodily Rights• Don’t fund lapdance clubs by utilising them in corporate entertaining

FAWCETT SOCIETYWe are the UK’s leading campaign for equality between women and men. We trace our roots back to 1866, when Millicent Fawcett began to campaign for women’s votes

How we work• Campaigning for legislative change• Influencing practice for institutional change• Empowering women and men for grassroots change

FAWCETT campaignsEconomic Rights• Sexism and the City• Motherhood penalty campaign• Women’s No Pay Day: 30th October

Political Rights• Seeing Double • Her Vote

Bodily Rights• Justice for victims of rape

YOU!

www.fawcettsociety.org.uk