The Covid-19 crisis is a pandemic affecting women and men across the globe. WEN Wales’ Director Catherine Fookes wrote to the Welsh Government Minister for Health and Social Services, Vaughan Gething AM in late March to raise concerns around health provisions for women during the coronavirus outbreak. The letter stated that Welsh Government must ensure […]
Women are at the forefront of responding to the Covid-19 crisis and they must be at the forefront of the Welsh Government’s policy response too. 17 WEN members, representing thousands of people, joined with us recently and wrote to the First Minister asking for key actions from Welsh Government to ensure women’s rights and equality […]
WEN Mentoring Scheme: What to expect. Thinking of applying to WEN Wales’ mentoring scheme, but want to know more? Mentoring and Engagement Officer, Sarah Sweeney is here to give you the lowdown. Who can apply? Interested in Politics? You may be attending local branch meetings of your political party or be an active member of […]
Written by Charlotte Archibald who is a writer, campaigner and mother of two from Barry. She is currently a mentee on the WEN Wales Mentoring Programme. “Against the backdrop of increased Brexit uncertainty, I headed to the WEN Wales Women’s Rights Conference in October to hear a variety of speakers discuss how we can safeguard […]
The Women’s Equality Network (WEN) Wales and the organisations listed below call on all political parties and candidates to put gender equality at the heart of the election and UK policy making until we close the gap and live in a UK free from gender discrimination. In this manifesto we: Call on all political parties […]
WEN Wales today welcomes the release of the Gender Equality Review reports and congratulates Chwarae Teg on the work that has gone into setting out an agenda for change so that Wales is transformed into a country free from gender discrimination. “We need to radically change what we do and how we do it to make Wales […]