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The Fawcett Society

The Fawcett Society. Kat Banyard Campaigns Officer, Fawcett Society Kat.banyard@fawcettsociety.org.uk. ECONOMIC RIGHTS. S traight-jacketed E xcluded from power X chromosome discrimination I mpoverishment S exual exploitation M oney Gap. IN THE CITY. S traight-jacketed.

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The Fawcett Society

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  1. The Fawcett Society Kat Banyard Campaigns Officer, Fawcett Society Kat.banyard@fawcettsociety.org.uk

  2. ECONOMIC RIGHTS

  3. Straight-jacketed Excluded from power Xchromosome discrimination Impoverishment Sexual exploitation Money Gap IN THE CITY

  4. Straight-jacketed UK full-time employees work the longest hours in the EU

  5. Excludedfrom power Only 11% of FTSE 100 company directors are women

  6. Xchromosome discrimination Every year 30,000 women lose their jobs in the UK simply for being pregnant

  7. Impoverishment Poverty has a female face: Two thirds of low paid workers are women

  8. Sexualexploitation There are over 300 lapdance clubs operating in the UK

  9. Money gap Women working full-time earn on average 17% less than men

  10. POLITICAL RIGHTS

  11. BODILY RIGHTS the right to live free from violence

  12. Economic 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 GOVERNMENT

  13. Economic 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 BUSINESS

  14. We 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 SOCIETY

  15. Economic 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 FAWCETT campaigns

  16. YOU! www.fawcettsociety.org.uk

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