Equality and Human Rights Commission

Part of the Commissions remit is to tackle sex discrimination and promote gender equality.

Quick links for Gender Equality

Information about our work on gender equality can be found across the website, embedded with information about other issues. However, the links below will take you directly to information on the site that specifically relates to gender.

Advice and guidance

• Advice and Guidance under the Equality Act 2010
• Your rights - sex discrimination at work
• Your rights - sex discrimination in education
• Your rights - sex discrimination as a consumer
• Your rights - sex discrimination in public services
• Gender equality rights publications
• Guidance for employers on pregnancy, maternity and parenthood
• Toolkit for employers - managing new and expectant parents
• Equal pay guidance and resources for employers
• Equal pay toolkit for Small Businesses
• Guidance about the Public Sector Equality Duty (which replaced the Gender Equality Duty)

Legal resources

• New law: The Equality Act has streamlined discrimination law into one Act
• Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Act and the Questionnaires
• Codes of Practice relating to gender equality legislation
• Taking sex discrimination cases to tribunal
• Legal updates: Sex Discrimination Regulations 2008

Projects and policy work about gender equality

• International Womens Day Centenary 2011
• 'A Lever for Change: Guide to using the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention to eliminate discrimination against women
• Inquiry into Human Trafficking in Scotland (with emphasis on commercial sexual exploitation)
• Sex Discrimination in the Finance Sector - Formal Inquiry
• Map of Gaps (local variation in domestic violence services)
• Violence against women campaign (Wales) - Asking for it?
• Muslim Women Power List
• Sex and Power
• Sex and Power Scotland
• Who runs Wales? 2011
• Working Better - includes flexible working and other workplace solutions
• UN Convention on the elimination of discrimination against women (CEDAW)
• Our human rights submissions to CEDAW
• Consultation response: Reform of law on rape and sexual offences (Scotland)
• Consultation response: Choice for families - additional paternity leave and pay
• Briefing: Equal pay strategy and position
• Briefing: Response to Treasury Select Committee Report 'Women in the City'

General information

• News stories and our press releases about gender equality: Media Centre | Equality News (Scotland) | Equality News (Wales)
• Gender issues and human rights
• 'How fair is Britain' charted progress on equality in Britain, including gender equality
• Research reports about equality and discrimination issues including gender
• Here for Business - making equality work for business
• Funding from the Commission for agencies promoting gender equality
• Commission publications, including those addressing gender equality

see also: Transgender