Our Objectives
- all laws to be gender neutral unless relating to pregnancy and childbirth.
- equal application of laws to men and women with only individual considerations, not gender or other grouping, in all stages of prosecution and sentencing;
- equal provisions for men and women in all statutory and public policies and benefits;
- equal treatment of victims of domestic violence, both male and female, and their children;
- substantially equal public funding for medical research into and treatment of male and female specific diseases;
- equal status for separated parents and more rigorous enforcement of child contact and of maintenance orders;
- effective Government policies to address academic underachievement of boys and encourage a more even balance between men and women in teaching, especially in primary schools ;
- funding for research into the reasons for and means of reducing the persistent difference in life expectancy between men and women;
- equal anonymity for defendants and complainants in sex offence cases unless a particular case, with specific court agreement, may demonstrably benefit from releasing the name of the defendant;
- equal liability of men and women over 60 in respect of National Insurance contributions (NICs);
- mitigation, and no further aggravation, of the present inequality as between men and women in state pension provision due to the continuing unequal state pension ages (lasting until year 2018);