An ethical endowment for the long-term financial security of the women's sector

Bridget Phillipson is the Minister for Women and Equalities who has launched the misogyny taskforce Last week, the Government launched a new National Taskforce for Tackling Misogyny. Bringing together ministers, women's organisations, charities, academics and local leaders, its remit is ambitious: to look at how misogynistic attitudes develop, how they spread through online spaces, workplaces and communities, and what can be done to prevent them. It's a welcome recognition th

The biggest challenges we're facing right now - whether it's social care, regional inequality, violence against women and girls, the housing crisis or women's economic inequality - weren't created overnight. These are problems that have developed over decades, spun by a system that pursues endless growth and profit over people. They won't be solved by a single funding round, a three-year project or the next Spending Review. Increasingly, and as the climate crisis starts to pr

The UK Government has just relaunched its women’s health strategy with a pretty striking admission: the system has failed women. From delayed diagnoses to inadequate pain relief, there’s now open acknowledgement of what many have been saying for years. Namely, that there is such a thing as 'medical misogyny', and it has real consequences: a systemic pattern of underinvestment, dismissal and neglect. One of the more interesting shifts in the new strategy is the suggestion t