CAMPAIGNERS have renewed calls for new legislation to protect young mothers from redundancy.
Expectant and new mothers have faced an increased risk of hardship, with existing discrimination exacerbated by the crisis, Maternity Action says.
Figures by the TUC show that a quarter of pregnant women feel they have been treated unfairly at work since the crisis began and singled out for furlough and redundancy.
Our priority must be to defend hard-won protections while linking equality law to trade union power and wider social transformation, says MARY DAVIS, on behalf of the Women’s Liberation Alliance
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports