Businesses must create ‘coalition of the willing’ to drive social mobility, says the Former Education Secretary, Justine Greening MP. 

To eliminate sexual harassment in every British workplace, there must be a focus on changing culture, greater transparency, and strengthening legal protection, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Employers with over 250 members of staff are entering the ‘last chance saloon’ to report their gender pay gap, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned today as it publishes its final strategy on how the new regulations will be enforced.

Jeremy Corbyn has been condemned after it emerged he criticised the removal of a mural dubbed “anti-Semitic” by critics.

We cannot expect deep-rooted power imbalances to crumble and fall at the utterance of worthy but empty rhetoric. It is up to us to take action, writes Liz Saville Roberts

Harriet Harman has called on male MPs to sit out the next Labour leadership contest so that the party can finally elect a female boss.

Harriet Harman entered Westminster as an outsider on the ‘margin of the margins’. Nearly 36 graft-filled years later, the Mother of the House still finds herself at the epicentre of the women’s movement, respected across the House. Though she insists her frontbench days are over, does she have one more big job in politics left? Sebastian Whale speaks to the Labour grandee, and those who know her, to find out

New fathers should be given the chance to take three months’ leave on the first year after a child is born, MPs have said.

If we’re to close the gender gap in the STEM sector and encourage more girls into tech careers the government must get parents on side, writes Carol Monaghan

Earlier this week women MPs and peers from all parties gathered in Speaker’s House to discuss the fight for a 50:50 Parliament

Companies that fail to close their gender pay gaps will face fines under a Labour government, the party has announced.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published briefings in contribution to International Women’s Day debates in the Houses of Parliament on 8 March 2018.

 "Women are still a minority on the Sellafield management team, but I hope to make positive moves to encourage diversity", says Rebecca Weston, Technical and Strategy Director. 

A third of UK home owners would rather hire a female builder, as opposed to a male builder, according to new research by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

To mark the theme of #PressForProgress on International Women’s Day, 8 March, we asked them and others what would most improve progress for women in specific practice areas, and across the Bar as a whole. Read what Amanda Pinto QC, Fiona Jackson, Kate Brunner QC and more thought below. 

SNP firebrand Mhairi Black has revealed some of the shocking misogynistic abuse she receives online in a powerful speech in parliament today.   

Student debt has almost doubled in six years and women are taking longer to repay student debt due to lower earnings throughout their careers, warns the Chartered Insurance Institute. 

Controversial transgender model Munroe Bergdorf has stepped down as an equalities advisor to the Labour Party.

If we cannot get our gender balance right here in Westminster, Rachel Maclean writes, how can we provide leadership to the rest of society?

Lloyds Banking Group's Fiona Cannon writes about gender equality, an issue the company takes incredibly seriously. Lloyds Banking Group sponsors today's House magazine event 'Deeds Not Words – How To Reach a 50/50 Parliament’.

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years

Willoughby Dickinson was the only MP with a perfect voting record on women’s suffrage. Baroness Anne Jenkin writes about her great grandfather’s legacy – and why there is still much to be done to achieve equal representation

Maria Caulfield’s appointment as Conservative vice chair for women raised eyebrows when it was announced by No10 in January. The Lewes MP wants to set the record straight, and outline how politics is about more than just parliament. She talks to Sebastian Whale

Barrister Baroness Chakrabarti, CBE, guest blogs for the Bar Council, seeking answers from the legal world and giving her view on how to address the vast issue of gender equality and protect the rule of law from "enemies of the people cynicism".