A new deal for care

Over the last 14 years our economy has been caught in a vicious cycle of underinvestment leading to restricted growth, driving even deeper cuts to services. Everybody is suffering for it, not just those at the sharp end. Year on year, we’re all paying the price for political leadership that has failed to value and invest in care with communities that are poorer, sicker and more divided. Time and again, women - particularly minoritised women- are being asked to bear the brunt of man made crises from climate change to broken services to escalating violence.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Policing and justice reforms will never end violence against women alone. Until women have financial freedom, and everyone has an opportunity to thrive we will never end the misogyny, enforced dependency and trauma that drives the cycle of violence in our communities.

Traditional economics fixates on GDP, but WE care about GUDP, the grossly undervalued domestic product of women, all that unpaid and underpaid labour that isn’t even counted as part of GDP. Old parties promise growth as the solution to everything, no matter what the cost to the environment and whether that growth is based on exclusion. Inequality is widening. Many of us can’t pay our energy bills or access healthcare when we need it. Creating change here means structuring our economy so it delivers us health and happiness, as well as wealth from inclusive and sustainable growth.

None of the old parties have policies that meet the gravity of the climate crises, or the growing inequality and destitution in our communities. Investing in care and ending poverty could transform our economy by creating wealth and jobs, enabling everyone to thrive. 

Discover our policies for a brighter future:

Local Election Results 2024

The results are in and the amazing Stacy Hart has been elected in Hatch Warren and Beggarwood and Sarah Jane Pattison has been elected in Stinsford. 

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Local Election Results 2023

The results are in and the brilliant Kay Wesley and Susan Mead were both elected to Congleton Town Council

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End misogyny in policing - next step in the campaign

The day David Carrick's sentencing began, we took action and projected women’s experiences of misconduct and misogyny onto New Scotland Yard. Laying police failures and misogyny squarely at the doors of police leadership. 

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Women are tired of platitudes and meaningless apologies from politicians and police leaders alike and we will not accept any less than fundamental, radical change. Violence against women and girls is not inevitable, politicians and police leadership have failed women for far too long. Enough is enough.

Our projection action was just one step in a long campaign to end misogyny in policing. Do you want to help lead the next action in your area? Sign up below to be the first to know about the next action and the ways you can get involved in the next part of the campaign. 

As the cost of living crisis hits families up and down the country, we want to turn our attention to childcare. 

In recent reports, childcare costs in the UK are among the most expensive in the world. The spiralling costs of childcare, long waiting lists, nursery closures due to staffing problems and a cost living crisis are creating the perfect storm that is pushing parents out of the workplace and into poverty.

The current system is not working for anyone, not women, not men, not children, and not childcare workers either.

So... why is this not headline news with a coordinated government response?!

While WE watch childcare in the UK teeter on the brink of crisis our political leader’s are ignoring the transformation that good, accessible childcare could bring to our economy and the impact it would have on equality.

It is no hidden secret that childcare directly impacts women's jobs, the gender pay gap, the cost of living crisis, and gender-equal roles inside and outside the home. It is a sector that is relied on by the vast majority of the country, yet severely underfunded and struggling to survive. 

We want to change this.

Let us know your experience with childcare costs, provision or working in the sector, so that we can develop our campaigns to demand better for parents everywhere.

Meet Mandu - Leader of the Women’s Equality Party

"Politics has never been in greater need of new ideas, fresh ways of doing things and creative leadership. We are the party that has those ideas in droves and I am bringing energy and creativity to lead us to electoral victory, to campaign victories, and to growth in our membership both in number and in representation. I am a passionate feminist. And to me, feminism is all about fairness and society fulfilling its potential."

Becoming leader

In April 2019, Mandu became the first person of colour to lead a national political party in British history when she took the helm at the Women’s Equality Party.

Working at City Hall  

Tackling period poverty

In 2015 she founded The Cup Effect - a charitable social enterprise, advocacy, and campaigning organisation that tackles period poverty in the UK and globally.

Top 100 most influential people in global gender policy

Success as party leader

End Police Misogyny

We are rising up together and pushing back against the idea that violence against women and girls and police abuse of power happen just because of the occasional bad apple. Institutional misogyny is baked into all police forces. It shapes the culture within the systems designed to keep us safe, and urgently must be rooted out.

WE are pushing for a statutory inquiry into misogyny in the full UK police force, and for radical reform.

Live campaigns:

👉 Covered the UK in spoof police recruitment posters accurately showcasing the toxic culture in policing 

Our activist campaigns so far:

👉 Projected the ways women are forced to protect themselves onto Parliament

👉 Organised a 10 mile March on the Met in honour of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman

👉 Amplified 10,000 women’s experiences of mistreatment to the Met Police

👉 Gained 10% of votes for a Police Commissioner election campaigning to end VAWG

👉 Covered London with witness appeal posters after officers discussed about abusing their partners and raping colleagues

👉 Replaced statue placards nationwide with QR codes exposing the government’s greater protections for statues over women

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