The Women and Equalities Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was established following...
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position led the Government Equalities Office. Its counterpart in the shadow cabinet is the shadow minister for women and equalities. Currently the position...
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social equality. Based in the Cabinet Office, it is led by the Minister for Women and Equalities. The OEO also contains a smaller equalities team within...
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Sarah Owen (category 21st-century British women politicians)
share of 37.9% and a decreased majority of 7,510. On 11 September 2024, Owen was elected as Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee. Owen has spoken...
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that wants to include trans women should be prevented from doing so". The House of Commons' Women and Equalities Committee wrote to Falkner asking for...
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In 2021, the Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee and the United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity also called...
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Gender-critical feminism (category Feminism and society)
maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Women and Equalities Committee (8 January 2016). Transgender Equality (Report). House of Commons. Archived from...
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Philip Davies (category GB News newsreaders and journalists)
certain areas as women". Maria Miller, Conservative chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee responded to Davies: "Women face discrimination...
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Caroline Nokes (category 21st-century British women politicians)
the position of chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, succeeding Maria Miller. In May 2021, alongside celebrities and other public figures, Nokes...
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Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2024. Women and Equalities Committee (2016). Transgender Equality: First Report of Session 2015–2016. House of...
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Romani people (redirect from Gypsy women)
this term and so we have decided that it is right and proper to use it, where appropriate, throughout the report." Women and Equalities Committee, UK Parliament...
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today". Following publication, Caroline Nokes suggested that the Women and Equalities Committee could ask Owen to testify. She also contacted the Commons speaker...
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Mark Jenkinson (section Select Committees)
Women and Equalities Committee. Jenkinson served as the Vice-Chair of the Conservative backbench Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee;...
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Kathleen Stock (category British women philosophers)
life and death are at stake, are not up for debate." In 2020, Stock testified before the Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons, and gave...
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Georgia Harrison (category English women television personalities)
passed in October 2023. As part of the Women and Equalities Committee, Harrison worked on improving timescales for women who want to report crimes against...
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assisted suicide. Entwistle is a Member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee and The Modernisation Committee When MPs debated the Universal Credit Bill...
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Angela Crawley (category 21st-century Scottish women politicians)
was previously the SNP spokesperson for Women and Equalities, and a member of the Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons. Born in Hamilton...
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Gender self-identification (category Feminism and transgender topics)
Gender recognition and the rights of transgender people". House of Commons Library. Retrieved 26 October 2021. Women and Equalities Committee (8 January 2016)...
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and independent of, Government but accountable for its use of public funds. Its Commissioners are appointed by the Minister for Women and Equalities....
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Lee Anderson (section Early life and career)
the Home Affairs Select Committee since March 2022 and previously was on the Women and Equalities Committee between June and December 2021. He resigned...
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Mims Davies (category 21st-century British women politicians)
on Representation and Inclusion and previously sat on the Consolidation Bills (Joint Committee) and Women and Equalities Committee. On 23 October 2018...
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Olympic Committee has historically run well behind the rate of female participation, and long missed its target of a 20% minimum presence of women on their...
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of capacity" and recommended capping referrals. By 2016 average wait times rose to nine months. In 2016, the Women and Equalities Committee released a report...
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2025. "Appointment of the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission - Women and Equalities Committee -". publications.parliament.uk. House of...
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Cleavage (breasts) (section Corsetry and bras)
of offenses "largely [go] unreported" and, according to Maria Miller, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, the legal provisions are inadequate...
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Jo Churchill (category 21st-century British women politicians)
St Edmunds and Stowmarket, having first taken her seat at the 2015 general election. She has sat on the Women and Equalities Committee and the Environmental...
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Bridget Phillipson (category 21st-century British women politicians)
Education and Minister for Women and Equalities since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton and Sunderland...
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Retrieved 14 April 2022. "Women in the House of Commons inquiry". Women and Equalities Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2017. "Women in the House of Commons...
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The Committee for the Study of the Legal Status of Women sought to inquire into the status of women all over the world. It was formed in 1937, and later...
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Anna Lawson (category British women legal scholars)
also served as a special advisor to the House of Commons' Women and Equalities Committee and an expert advisor to the Council of Europe. Lawson was born...
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