Askham Grange, a women’s open prison, has been awarded the highest grading of ‘good’ in all four HM Inspectorate of Prisons healthy prison tests for the second inspection running.
Two in five women bosses say there is sexism in their workplace, compared with one in five men, according to new research by the charity Young Women’s Trust.
More than five million families spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF says in a new analysis of maternal health.
Around the world, rural women in developing countries are more likely to be food insecure than men. But equality for women can be a cornerstone in building a world without hunger and poverty, according to experts from the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
The humanitarian crisis increase the risks faced by women and girls in Mozambique and could widen gender inequalities in a country which even prior to the disaster, ranked in the bottom 20 nations on the UNDP Gender Inequality Index.
Women with learning disabilities are at risk of becoming drawn into the criminal justice system due to failures to recognise their disability and a lack of appropriate support, according to a new report published by the Prison Reform Trust.
The inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System will be aimed at encouraging and enabling police forces to prevent women being drawn into the criminal justice system unnecessarily.