The Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru have recently announced that they will be implementing legally binding gender quotas as part of their co-operation agreement. WEN Wales and the 21 organisations who support the Diverse 5050 Campaign were delighted that our hard work and campaigning over the past three years has paid off. We believe that […]
Read MoreHomebased Salary: £31,365 1 year fixed contract (from March 2022) with possibility to extend. Homebased anywhere in the UK. This is a new role to WEN Wales, funded by the Third Sector Resilience Fund to take forward our ambitious fundraising targets and our fundraising strategy in order to make our charity more sustainable. With a proven track record […]
Read MoreWEN Wales welcomes The Senedd’s Equality and Social Justice Committee report ‘Minding the Future: the childcare barrier facing working parents’ and is delighted to see that some of the most important recommendations made by WEN Wales have been taken up. These include the committee recommending: Delivering of universal wrap-around care including after-school clubs to accommodate […]
Read MoreWEN Wales and Oxfam Cymru have produced two Feminist Scorecards to date, to review Welsh Government’s progress towards their stated aim of being a ‘feminist government’. The Scorecard assesses progress in areas including Caring, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls and Global Women’s Rights. We are now commissioning a freelance consultant to research and write […]
Read MoreBy Adele Baumgardt, WEN Wales co-founder In 2009 I was serving as the Wales Commissioner for the Women’s National Commission (WNC) when the UK government decided to close the WNC in 2010. In Wales the Wales Women’s National Coalition (WWNC), the key consultative body on gender equality that represented women of all backgrounds and at […]
Read MoreTwo sporting legends recently joined forces to celebrate a decade of campaigning for women’s rights and equality. Virtual event WEN at TEN saw the Women’s Equality Network Wales (WEN Wales) bring together inspirational women from all walks of life to honour the work done so far, to discuss how to create further change and to […]
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