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Most women experience sex discrimination in the workplace – damning poll shows | UK | News

Most women experience sex discrimination in the workplace – damning poll shows | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

A majority of women still experience sex discrimination in the workplace, a damning UK audit reveals. The extraordinary findings of a nationwide poll shows most have fears about personal safety and harassment at offices and factories across the country. More than two thirds said they still experience gender-based discrimination while 70% of said they did not feel safe in the workplace with the most common reasons given as personal security, including lone working, a lack of protection from bullying and harassment, and physical safety. The state-of-the-nation snapshot, which saw 101 business titans surveyed, was commissioned to mark International Women’s Day by UK personalised workwear provider MyWorkwear. Gayle Parker, Commercial Director at MyWorkwear, said: “Workplace equality isn’t just about pay. “It’s about safety, inclusion and ensuring women feel safe when they go, attend and come back from work. The results are clearly telling us that this is not the case, and firms need to take action to turn this worrying trend around. “We want to encourage the next generation of female leaders to believe they can …

EU Commission rejects new abortion financing proposal, points to existing fund – POLITICO

EU Commission rejects new abortion financing proposal, points to existing fund – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

The My Voice My Choice campaign group said after the decision that its priority was always “getting results for women, not the legal form.” “While no new legal instrument is being created, the Commission has formally acknowledged that the core objectives of our initiative can be achieved and outlined a concrete pathway to implement it in practice,” the group said in a statement. The group was also pleased that the existing fund can be used broadly. “We are especially happy that the mechanism would be able to be used not just for funding of the medical services, but also the cost of travel in circumstances that would be needed,” the group added. However, the group urged the Commission to support additional dedicated funding in the future, as well as give clear instructions on how countries can provide safe abortion care with EU funds and to create an information platform for patients. German MEP Christine Anderson, with the Europe of Sovereign Nations group, told POLITICO after the decision that the Commission should have made clear “from …

Measuring the deep tech gender gap – POLITICO

Measuring the deep tech gender gap – POLITICO

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A central output of the project is the Gender Gap in Investments Dashboard, developed by Dealroom. The dashboard is a prototype repository that already presents a clear picture of the current state of the gender investment gap using Dealroom data. It brings together information on company founding teams and venture funding outcomes across Europe in a single, accessible interface. The dashboard is not an endpoint. It is designed as a foundation that can, over time, incorporate additional data sources, improve coverage, and offer a more nuanced view of how gender, sector, funding stage and geography interact. The long-term ambition is to support the development of a credible, shared European data infrastructure on gender and investment. What the data show: Deep tech remains highly skewed Even at this early stage, the dashboard reveals persistent imbalances. Across Europe, startups with at least one woman founder raise just 14.4 percent of all venture capital (VC) rounds and 12 percent of total VC funding. In deep tech, the imbalance is even starker. Around 80 percent of deep-tech companies are founded by all-male …

Trump’s new aid rules risk lives, EU says – POLITICO

Trump’s new aid rules risk lives, EU says – POLITICO

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The U.S. has rolled out a series of bilateral deals with 14 African countries, requiring them to guarantee the U.S. access to pathogen samples and data in exchange for health funding — much of which the U.S. had withdrawn last year through USAID cuts. It has also offered to restore funding to global vaccine program GAVI, but only if the organization stops using a common mercury-based preservative that Trump’s top health officials have linked to autism, without evidence. The latest policy is part of a “much larger project by the Trump administration to advance this radical anti-rights agenda,” Beirne Roose-Snyder, a senior policy fellow at the Council for Global Equality, told reporters this week. Desirée Cormier Smith, a former U.S. diplomat, said she hoped governments in the EU and elsewhere would “push back” and deliver a bracing message to the Trump administration: “We refuse to leave all of our people behind. You’re not going to export your domestic culture wars and the division that plagues the U.S. to our own countries.” The new rules, which …

Marlene Schiappa: French minister under fire for appearing on front cover of Playboy magazine

Marlene Schiappa: French minister under fire for appearing on front cover of Playboy magazine

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CNN  —  French government minister Marlene Schiappa has come under fire from members of her own party after appearing on the front cover of Playboy magazine. Schiappa, who has been a government minister since 2017, appeared on the cover of the magazine to accompany a 12-page interview she did on women’s and LGBT rights. Schiappa, who is the current Minister for the Social Economy and French Associations, was photographed for the cover wearing a white dress. Schiappa has been a long-time advocate for women’s rights and was appointed as the country’s first ever Gender Equality Minister in 2017. In this role, she successfully spearheaded a new sexual harassment law which allows for on the spot fines to be issued to men who catcall, harass or follow women on the street. Her appearance has drawn criticism from political colleagues including French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Borne pulled up Schiappa over the cover, telling her it “wasn’t appropriate, especially during this period,” CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Saturday, citing a source close to the prime minister. France is …