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Gender pay gap: time to abolish the parent penalty

Published: 04 Jan 2017

Rebecca Hilsenrath responds to new research on the gender pay gap from the Resolution Foundation.

Young mums ‘ask the midwife’ in new #PowertotheBump video

Published: 28 Nov 2016

#PowertotheBump is back with a new video, answering the questions young expectant mums say are worrying them about their health and wellbeing at work.

Forcing working mothers from jobs costs business £280 million each year

Published: 27 Oct 2016

British businesses are losing nearly £280 million each year as a result of women being forced out of their jobs by pregnancy and maternity discrimination, according to new research published by the Commission.

Equality Commission welcomes improvement in social attitudes in Scotland

Published: 30 Sep 2016

Britain’s leading employers unite to end pregnancy discrimination in workplaces

Published: 14 Sep 2016

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has joined with some of Britain's leading employers to launch the Working Forward initiative, to end pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace.

Commission agrees that MPs should be allowed to breastfeed in the House of Commons

Published: 21 Jul 2016

#PowertotheBump unites young mothers in fight against pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work

Published: 17 May 2016

Research shows young mothers are significantly more likely to experience pregnancy and maternity discrimination, with six times as many under 25 year olds than average reporting being dismissed from their jobs after they tell their employer they are pregnant.

Commission launches ambitious programme to promote equality and human rights in Britain

Published: 10 May 2016

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has today launched its Strategic Plan for 2016–19, setting out an ambitious programme to challenge discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and protect and promote human rights in Britain.

#Worksforme

Published: 22 Mar 2016

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is today calling for urgent action to be taken as new research suggests more than three quarters of pregnant women and new mothers - the equivalent of 390,000 women across Britain and 17,000 in Wales - experience negative and potentially discriminatory treatment at work each year.

Three out of four Scottish working mothers say they’ve experienced pregnancy and maternity discrimination

Published: 22 Mar 2016

New research published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission today suggests that around three quarters of pregnant women and new mothers in Scotland, the equivalent of over 30, 000 women, experience negative or potentially discriminatory treatment at work each year.