📢 Calling all public and third sector employers! Equally Safe at Work is now open and new employers are invited to join this next phase. Read our latest blog on what's new with the programme and for more details on how to apply: shorturl.at/wMQR9

📊We've just published our latest look at Scotland's #genderpaygap data. We can see progress - but it's important to look behind the numbers, as headline figures hide the true extent of gender inequality in the labour market. Find out more: closethegap.org.uk/news/blog/how-…

Our briefing for today’s Stage 1 debate on the Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council Bill highlights how approaches to workplace health & safety ignore women’s specific occupational illness & injuries, & creates barriers to accessing support ➡️ closethegap.org.uk/content/resour…

📅We're at Financially Included's conference today on the #economicimpact of gender-base violence. Great to hear from all the speakers on identifying gaps in women's access to support and how this can be addressed.

🎉We recently visited Angus Council, who received Equally Safe at Work accreditation at the end of last year. Well done on all the great work being undertaken to progress gender equality in the workplace and to prevent VAW

Wouldn't it be great if someone had specific concrete tips for rooting out sexism at work? Oh hang on, they do! Watch new Close the Gap film by mediaco-op
ESCU Equally Safe Delivering Equally Safe STUC Glasgow Women's Library White Ribbon Scotland
Business Women The Guilty Feminist

Gender inequality can be deeply embedded in workplace culture, hard to root out. HR staff are central to tackling the causes of the #genderpaygap & building #inclusive workplaces. Our short animation shows how HR can take the lead youtube.com/watch?v=PSM-r3…

Confused about Scotland’s new Human Rights Bill? Want to find out what it’s all about, and the impact it could have on human rights in Scotland? Read our short briefing now!: buff.ly/3TtMENs

🧵1/3 Tomorrow marks 7 years since the two-child limit policy came into force, & the need to scrap it could not be greater.Across Scotland 9% of children live in a family whose benefit payments are reduced by the two-child limit, an issue inextricably linked to women’s inequality

Tomorrow is an unhappy birthday, 7 years since the start of the two-child limit to benefit payments

We love birthdays 🎂 but this isn't one to celebrate 😔 today we are taking this message to Department for Work and Pensions

All political parties must pledge to scrap this Sibling Tax

#AllKidsCount

💡The new #flexibleworking regulations come into effect tomorrow - are you ready for them? Our latest blog explains the changes & sets out how employers can use this as an opportunity to refresh their practice & improve #genderequality in their orgs ➡️closethegap.org.uk/news/blog/are-…

Inequality is lower than in the rest of the UK, but there’s no reason to celebrate yet | ✍️ Anna Ritchie Allan, Close the Gap thetimes.co.uk/article/closin…

❔Do you want to become a sector leader in advancing gender equality in the workplace and preventing violence against women?
👉Read our #EquallySafeatWork leaflet to find out what’s involved in our world-leading employer accreditation programme: shorturl.at/ceRW5

Today in The Times and The Sunday Times our Executive Director, Anna Ritchie Allan, highlights that although Scotland's #genderpaygap has narrowed, this headline figure hides that fact that women’s work continues to be undervalued & underpaid. We can't celebrate just yet 🛑thetimes.co.uk/article/closin…

This year's @scvotweets Guide to Running a Charity or Social Enterprise is out now! You can find info on our guide to an anti-racist approach to advancing #genderequality in your workforce on p16 alongside a huge range of insights from third sector experts tfn.scot/magazine/guide…

Improving flexible working can help the lowest paid women get into work and stay in work. This could help tackle women’s poverty and child poverty. More needs to be done to expand flex for low paid workers. Great research Flexibility Works!

Great to be at the launch of Flexibility Works new report on the use of #flexiblework in Scotland. The lowest paid women still face the biggest barriers to flex, so we need to see more employers willing to take bold steps to boost flex in their workplaces.

🚨The #genderpaygap reporting deadline is less than two weeks away! Worried that people will wonder why there's a pay gap in your organisation? Our briefing can help you develop an effective comms approach so you can take questions confidently closeyourpaygap.org.uk/files/briefing…