In society
- Highlight the feminisation of poverty and campaign to reverse cuts in welfare state and public services.
- Expose the ideologies that are used to perpetuate women?s inequality (for example, the notion of „family values? and the „family wage?).
- Draw attention to the role of the media and other cultural agencies in shaping gender identities that reinforce the unequal relationships between men and women.
- Campaign for greater support for lone mothers, carers and women subjected to domestic and other violence.
- End the oppression of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans women
- Improve access and rights to abortion.
- Ensure that women and girls are entitled to the full range of free and high quality educational provision (from nursery to university) and subject choice.
- End women pensioner poverty by paying men and women equal State Pensions and restoring the link to average earnings or prices, whichever is the higher
At work
- Campaign to end institutional and other forms of racism and ensure that the status and pay of Black women workers is a bargaining priority.
- Campaign to reduce the gender pay gap and highlight its causes
- End job segregation by improving training and opportunities for women.
- Ensure that unions fight more equal value claims.
- Campaign to change equal pay law to permit „class action? (group claims) and remove employer „get out? clauses.
- Campaign to raise the level of national minimum wage to at least half, and rising
- to at least two-thirds of male median earnings.
- Demand statutory pay audits.
- Equalise opportunities and improve conditions for women workers.
- Demand full-time right for part time workers.
- Root out bullying and sexual harassment.
- End casualisation and especially zero hours contracts.
- Reduce job segregation by providing training opportunities for women in non-traditional areas.
- Campaign for affordable child care including pre-, after-school and holiday provision.
- Campaign for a shorter working week for all.
- Improve maternity leave and pay, including paid paternity leave.
- Campaign for a change in the qualification criteria in the Industrial Injuries/Disability Benefit scheme, to end discrimination against women and in particular to extend the list of disorders in the prescribed disease schedules.
In the labour movement
- Tackle the under-representation of women in the labour and trade union movement structures by proportionality and other measures.
- Ensure the accountability of women?s structures to women.
- Maintain and extend women?s committees, women?s courses and other measures to ensure that women?s issues/concerns are collectively articulated and actioned.
- Campaign to raise the profile of the TUC, STUC and Welsh TUC?s women?s conferences as the „parliaments of working women?.
