Women's Equality Archives - Women for Independence

Relaunch on International Women’s Day

It’s relaunch day! And what better day to relaunch than International Women’s Day? A very happy IWD from all of us at Women for Indy!

8 March 2025

a pastel drawing of women with their backs to the viewer, looking through a fence at a harsh and hazy landscape

The International War on Women

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SUBSCRIBERS HAVE BEEN CONTACTED AND ALL TICKET PURCHASES WILL BE REFUNDED. WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE THIS

6 April 2023

Statement

WFI Statement on the election of Humza Yousaf MSP as leader of the SNP

WFI Statement on Humza Yousaf’s election as SNP party leader.

27 March 2023

When it comes to fairness in society, we have a long way to go

#IWD2023 and the neverending journey.

Lisa-Marie Hughes writes on how we #EmbraceEquity in Women for Independence and all the goals we’re still campaigning for.

8 March 2023

Intersectionality graph from ScotGov: https://www.gov.scot/publications/using-intersectionality-understand-structural-inequality-scotland-evidence-synthesis/pages/3/

Speech

Intersectional Feminism for a fairer Scotland

Maggie Lennon makes the case for intersectionality as a driver for – and essential part of – self-determination.

23 January 2023

Image shows a protest flag reading 'Gas Bills Kill! Fuel Poverty Action' A pink symbol representing Woman is overlaid

Speech

Sisters

Sue Lyons presented ‘Sisters’ at our 2022 AGM. It looks at poverty, independence and Women for Independence’s role in amplifying women’s voices.

5 December 2022

Official Westminster creative commons photo of Rishi Sunak with the caption 'Human Rights: going, going, gone

The government with inequity built in

Westminster’s new cabinet promises grim days ahead for human rights, women and the LGBTQI+ community, writes Zara Pennington

31 October 2022

A group of women and girls meeting for International Women's Day 2019

Women of the World, Take Over!

Women are badly under-represented in public office, meaning policy and legislation is not always inclusive. Jools Bell gives us an account of what she has done, as a councillor, to promote women’s rights and wellbeing.

24 October 2022

Hogans-and-Rutherford Foodbank by MarylandGovPics on flickr

Poverty is a political choice. So we can choose to eradicate it.

The Cost of Living Crisis is tearing our country apart – and Scotland’s whole budget depends on the UK Government deciding what they will give us. With Truss ignoring Sturgeon and Labour refusing to talk to the SNP, how do we make our voice heard? For all of us but particularly women in Scotland who are already in poverty or close to it, this is really worrying. Many of us are struggling to keep our heads above water, we are drowning under the weight of poverty and worry.

10 October 2022

WFI Statement on the US Supreme Court decision to repeal Roe vs Wade

Women for Independence stand in solidarity with women and human rights campaigners in the US and across the world, on this day and in the

25 June 2022

Tag: Women's Equality