With less than 48 hours until we go to the polls, WEN Wales asked the six main parties what their policies were on three of the issues which matter most to women in Wales: Question 1 Research shows unpaid caring has a more profound impact on women’s lives than any other factor, adversely affecting women’s […]
The National Assembly for Wales’s Presiding Officer, Rosemary Butler AM, has put the issue of barriers to women in public and professional life at the top of the political agenda in Wales as part of her #POWiPL “Women in Public Life”. She will give a keynote speech at the WEN Wales & Career Women Wales […]
Are you looking for an event to attend to celebrate IWD? WEN Wales has worked in partnership with organisations and individuals across Wales to bring you an exciting programme of activity… Cardiff Our South Wales event will take place on 8 March at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. Featuring WMAD’s Welsh Women’s Summit, workshops, activities, […]
Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, WEN Wales has written to Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to request that the UK Government ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). Click here to download your copy of the letter […]
For the 2014 WEN Wales Annual Lecture, we invited Beatrix Campbell, Pragna Patel and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett to share their experiences and thoughts on Fourth Wave feminism and the current status of women in the UK. WEN Wales are to be congratulated for putting together such an inspiring panel for their annual lecture on 27 […]
So, we want to achieve gender parity in local and national elections, and public life more widely, by 2020. It’s 6 years away, should be easy, yes? Hmm, maybe not. In 1997 the Westminster General election saw more women elected than in all the previous parliaments combined. The ratio has got worse since. In Wales […]