We currently have five vacancies at WRC! Please follow the links below for more information on the roles and how to apply to join the Women’s Resource Centre team. Training and Partnership Facilitation Officer Training and Financial Sustainability Officer Business Development Officer Shared Head of Sustainability and Development Head of Policy Completed applications should be more »
CONTINUE READINGThe London Borough of Lambeth wishes to offer an opportunity for an experienced and suitably qualified organisation to deliver the provision of a specialist community based service for female offenders. To view the full advert and for further information please click here. The aims of the service are: To reduce reoffending amongst women To divert more »
CONTINUE READINGMOPAC are currently undertaking a consultation for the second mayoral strategy on violence against women and girls (2013-16); the consultation is now open and closes on 9 August 2013. Like the first strategy, the second will be an integrated VAWG strategy with prevention at its heart, but MOPAC’s aim this time is to focus on action more »
CONTINUE READINGAnnecka Marshall, PhD (University of Warwick) is writing a book entitled Black Sisterhood: Black Feminism, Womanism and Women’s Organizing. She will be conducting semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with members of Black women’s organizations, Black feminists and womanists between June and August 2013. Dr Marshall wants to investigate the importance of Black women’s independent more »
CONTINUE READINGAn investigation into the reporting of familial sexual abuse in South Asian communities The following questionnaire is part of a University of Roehampton research project that hopes to gain a better understanding of the nature and consequences of sexual violence and abuse in South Asian communities in England. The project aims to explore whether sexual offending more »
CONTINUE READINGMayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are currently undertaking a consultation for the second mayoral strategy on violence against women and girls (2013-16); the consultation is now open and closes on 9 August 2013. This is an important consultation for the women’s sector and WRC are putting together a response. If you are not more »
CONTINUE READINGRota, the BAME-led social policy think tank that focuses on race equality and issues affecting Britain’s BAME communities, has started the petition “The British Government: Keep the Public Sector Equality Duty” and need your help to get it off the ground. Will you take 30 seconds to sign it? Please CLICK HERE to sign. Here’s more »
CONTINUE READINGRoss says ‘Not all rape is rape’… Our CEO, Vivienne Hayes tells the Daily Mail: ‘Does Ross think all women and girls should lock themselves away or wear a chastity belt because men and boys are not expected to monitor and control their behaviour?’ For more on this story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330930/Crimewatch-creator-Nick-Ross-provokes-fury-suggesting-rape-rape-victim-drunk-leading-men-on.html#ixzz2UZyAEJTY
CONTINUE READINGDiane Abbott MP spoke earlier this month of a ‘crisis of masculinity’, prompting a sudden flurry of media interviews with men from across the board claiming the opposite. However, many commentators have agreed that men do have issues, that the modern world creates certain pressures that affect their psyche, health, behavior, interpersonal relationships, emotional development, and more »
CONTINUE READINGIn response to Margret Thatcher’s death, much has been written, usually introduced by the words ‘Britain’s first female Prime Minister’. She has been described by some on the right as the ultimate feminist icon, and across the spectrum as important as the first female leader in Whitehall, a woman ‘gaining power’ in a man’s world. more »
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