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:
Mike Bell. Mike taught science in a UK secondary comprehensive school. From an interest in reliable evidence he ran training courses in evidence-based teaching and has recently published a teachers guide to the evidence.
Christopher Badley. Chris started his working life in the Royal Air Force , but has worked in the Third Sector for the past 30 years. He currently leads the overseas department of charity working in over thirty countries around the world.
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