What would an equal future look like?

Fawcett Society marks study modern phase of do with redesigned website

Chief Executive Ceri Goddard, welcomes visitors to the tonic website which marks the beginning of a “major new phase of our work for UK women’s equivalence and rights, iodine that will see us expand our presence firmly into today’s digital sphere and literally interchange the face of Fawcett’s campaigning.”

Fawcett is the UK’s leading campaigning disposal for women’s equality and rights – at home, at work and in public life. The Fawcett Society was started in 1866 by Millicent Fawcett, one of the leadershiphip in the UK campaign for women’s suffrage.

How incessantly, nearly 150 old age later, Goddard points out that progress has been slow, and “we seem in many areas to be facing something far worse – a backwards move.”

Fawcett’s current campaign focus is on women and the economy; women and big businessman; and stagnation in the advancement of equality due to the “political culture and system that too often views women’s equality as a fringe issue to be dealt with by someone else.”

Goddard calls for action, saying that “After the hard fought struggles of the women who came before us, we essential not be the generation that sees the change they started, undone, that accepts fine lyric over real action.

No, we moldiness be the opposite; we must use the fact that we are, because of them, in a stronger position than ever to hold those in power to greater account.”

One of Fawcett’s new initiatives is the Future Female programme which aims to generate “a stronger trance of what a more equal future could look like,’ including purpose ways ‘to accelerate the pace of change.”

The programme will legion a number of divers(prenominal) events, bringing together leaders from a variety of sectors and professions.

Visitors to the redesigned website will find a new layout, more images used throughout and a number of different ways to get involved and learn more just about what is happening.

The Campaigns and Issues section brings all the campaign information together, along with spare data on a variety of other issues affect women’s equality.

The Power Watch page showcases work being done to bring about parliamentary change.

And the Resources section provides a catalogued library of Fawcett’s work: “All the shareable, printable, downloadable goodies we have’ and is searchable by topic or type of resource.”

Ways to get involved  include connecter the organisation, supporting a campaign, buying a t-shirt, fundraising and joining a local group.

Funded by a grant from the electronic warfare-support measuresée Fairbairn Foundation, the work done on the website is part of Fawcett’s broader redevelopment of its online communications and strategy.

As one member says, “I compliments what I think to count.”

 

Materials taken from Womens Views on News