This paper provides brief information in response to some key questions regarding the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on separated families, maintenance arrangements and access to children.
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International Women's Day 2015: Background and statistics (697 KB, PDF)
8 March is International Women's Day. This year the global theme is Make it Happen, encouraging effective action for advancing and recognising women. Around the world, organisations, government and women's groups come together to mark the past, present and future economic, political and social achievements of women.
Although there have been shifts in society about women's equality since the first International Women's Day in 1911, significant issues remain. Internationally, there are inequalities in education, in access to wage employment, and in health. Gender-based violence is present in every society in the world, and more than 125 million women and girls alive today have undergone Female Genital Mutilation.
In the UK, on average, women working full-time earn 9.5% less than men. Although women make up 51% of the population in the UK, only 23% of MPs, 25% of judges and 21% FTSE 100 company directors are female.
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International Women's Day 2015: Background and statistics (697 KB, PDF)
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A Westminster Hall debate on the ‘Sexual abuse and exploitation’ has been scheduled for Wednesday 4 November 2020 from 9:30-11:00am. The debate will be led by Pauline Latham.
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This Commons Library briefing paper deals with proposed changes to marriage registration in England and Wales – moving from a paper-based system to registration in an electronic register. This will facilitate the amendment of the form and content of the marriage register entry to include, for example, details of both parents of each of the parties to a marriage (and not just fathers' details, as at present)
