Fawcett Society Articles

Today is Equal Pay Day – the day in the year that, because of the ongoing gender pay gap, British women stop earning relative to men. More than 40 years after the women at the Ford Dagenham plant went on the strikes that led to the introduction of the 1970 Equal Pay...

I began Business of the House questions by raising the three defeats we inflicted on the government in the House of Lords this week on their plans for judicial review. A brace of ex-Tory cabinet ministers backed our amendments, while a former lord chief justice...

A Great Train Robbery is occurring oop north. The revelation that nine of TransPennine Express's 70 railway carriages are to be reallocated to boost Chiltern Rail services in the south-east has left northerners reeling in anger. The carriages will be taken out from...

Pay is suddenly and decisively on the radar. With almost half a million people in Britain now paid less than a living wage, in-work poverty has – thanks to Labour’s strong stance – become the problem everyone wants to solve. However, a neglected aspect of the...