WEN Cafe

WEN Wales hosts regular WEN Cafe online events over Zoom, offering opportunities for speakers and attendees to discuss a theme in detail, from policy to women’s lived experience. These discussions help to influence and inform our conversations with Welsh Government and other policy-makers regarding inequalities that women in Wales are experiencing. Each #WENCafe is advertised through social media and our members’ newsletter, which you can sign up to receive here. Tickets are available through WEN Wales’ Eventbrite page.
Sign up as a member for free and you will also gain access to member-only WEN Café workshops, such as our workshop with Women’s Environmental Network on the Feminist Green New Deal. Just click the green Join Us button at the top of the page.
WEN Cafe Podcast
Subscribe to the WEN Cafe Podcast on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. You can also watch a selection of previous WEN Café events on our YouTube channel.
Upcoming events
Find all upcoming events on our Eventbrite page.
WEN Cafe: Wales Women’s Rights Manifesto
Join us online at 4pm on Tuesday 5th December for a WEN Cafe discussion on the new Wales Women’s Rights Manifesto for the UK General Election by the Gender Network, followed by our AGM. Book here.
The Gender Network is a policy forum of 80 third sector representatives, activists and academics fighting for women’s rights in Wales, run by WEN Wales. The GN is calling on all political parties and candidates to put gender equality at the heart of the election and UK policy making. Our manifesto covers six areas where we need to see political parties acting to protect and advance gender equality in Wales.
- Fair finance
- Caring responsibilities
- Representation and leadership
- Tackling gender health inequalities
- Ending violence against women and girls
- Women’s rights
Starting from 4pm, members of the Gender Network will taken part in a WEN Cafe discussion introducing the manifesto’s policy asks and recommendations. This session will be followed by WEN Wales’ AGM at 5:15pm, open to members only.
Previous events
Previous Cafes have included themes around the impact of Covid-19 on disabled women, Black, Asian, and minority ethnic women, and LGBT women, women’s caring responsibilities, global women’s rights, Universal Basic Income, and more. Watch recordings of the events on our WEN Cafe YouTube playlist. View summaries of previous events below.
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August 2021
WEN Cafe: The rights of older women
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June 2021
WEN Cafe: The impact of Covid-19 on neurodiverse women
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May 2021
WEN Cafe: Women and the Right to Adequate Housing
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April 2021
WEN Cafe: Equalities Hustings
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March 2021
WEN Cafe: What are young women looking for from the Senedd elections
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February 2021
WEN Cafe: The Balancing Act of Parenting during Covid-19
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December 2020
WEN Café: Global Women’s Rights
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October 2020
WEN Café x Black History Wales: The contribution of Black women to education in Wales
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September 2020
WEN Café: Universal Basic Income
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July 2020
WEN Café: Women’s caring responsibilities
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May 2020
WEN Café: Impact of Covid-19 on LGBT+ Rights
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May 2020
WEN Café: Impact of Covid 19 on Disabled Women
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May 2020
WEN Cafe: Impact of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic women
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May 2020
WEN Cafe: Impact of Covid-19 on Violence Against Women
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April 2020
WEN Cafe: Women's Reproductive and Sexual Health in the #Covid19 Crisis
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