A watchdog for gender-balanced legislation.
Monitoring and advising parliament to promote gender-neutrality.
Aim:
We work towards ensuring that laws and other directives or advice from the UK government maintain a gender-neutral balance both in content and implementation.
Methods:
- Monitor the forthcoming legislation etc from parliament
- Identify areas of interest and concern
- Use the existing consultation process to give input reflecting our aims
- Give direct input to policy-makers including select committees etc
- Identify supportive (or potentially supportive) parliamentarians, (even if only on single issues or aspects)
- Create briefings for parliamentarians on the issue being debated
- Draft, promote and assist amendments and legislation promoting gender-neutrality
- Communicate with the media
Team:
Volunteers. This project has been started, and is initially run by volunteers.
If you support the aims and have some skills or time, please contact us. using the form.
Longer-term. To be effective, we will be fundraising for paid staff to administer the communications with parliamentarians, interested groups etc. We have already received our first donation.
Funding:
Directly from supportive groups and individuals.
- From groups: groups already working on these issues, but who have insufficient resources to also cover this work, may be prepared to donate regularly.
- Individuals: While supporters will endorse the aims of Equi-law, many do not have the time or skills to act. However, some individuals may be prepared to support this project financially..
- From grants and other sources