When Theresa May became prime minister and set out her vision, women were among the groups she promised to champion. At this rate it will be decades before women and men are paid the same, but the data is moving in the right direction. Nine in 10 single parents are women, single female pensioners are more likely to be poor, and poor BAME women face multiple disadvantages even before the effects of cuts are calculated. This week another report highlighted the lack of progress on eradicating child marriage and high rates of domestic violence. In the US, as Margaret Atwood writes in this weekend’s Guardian Review, reproductive rights are under attack as never before.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2018 18:22 UTC