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The Latest Breaking News from the Women and Equalities Committee

Vicky Pattison calls for research and training in female reproductive health

The Strictly Come Dancing star met with Health Secretary Wes Streeting to discuss the topic.

Evening Standard

Urgent calls to overhaul ‘broken’ parental leave for dads

The government acknowledged to the committee that improvements are needed

The Independent UK

Breast surgeons see problems from procedures abroad on weekly basis, MPs told

Health officials appeared in front of the Women and Equalities Committee.

Evening Standard

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UK has one of ‘worst statutory leave offers for fathers in developed world’

A report has warned that a maximum of two weeks’ paternity leave ‘entrenches outdated gender stereotypes about caring’.

Evening Standard

NDAs should be banned to curb music industry ‘culture of misogyny’, says new parliament report

The use of non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements to cover up abuse in music remains a ‘major concern’ for the women and equalities committee

The Guardian - UK

Committee calls on Government to ban NDAs to tackle misogyny in music industry

A report by the Women and Equalities Committee said that ‘meaningful change requires both cultural and structural reform’.

The Independent UK

Government backs proposal for paid bereavement leave to cover miscarriage

The Women and Equalities Committee has pressed the case for change, with the Government agreeing to amend the Employment Rights Bill.

Evening Standard

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Tougher laws needed to combat non-consensual intimate images, MPs say

The Women and Equalities Committee said possession of such images should be made an offence.

Evening Standard

Business Secretary ‘will not yet commit to backing miscarriage leave amendment’

Some MPs are seeking to make the two-week leave period available to those bereaved as a result of pre-24 week pregnancy loss.

Evening Standard

Paid bereavement leave should cover miscarriage, say MPs

While some employers do offer such leave, ‘very substantial gaps in provision’ remain, the Women and Equalities Committee said.

Evening Standard

'Sex education in schools is failing' as young people turn to porn to learn, research shows - here's how to approach the topic with your kids

A new report has highlighted some alarming trends and recommended how government can step in

GoodToKnow

Senior Tory MP criticises government’s refusal to back new sex education strategy aimed at boys

‘What we see today is a lack of urgency and frankly women and girls have already waited long enough for those in positions of authority to stand up for them,’ Caroline Nokes says

The Independent UK

Better support needed to prevent honour-based abuse remaining hidden crime – MPs

Members of the Women and Equalities Committee called for better data collection and for a statutory definition of such abuse.

The Independent UK

Death of Olympian in childbirth highlights race disparities in maternal deaths

Last month it was revealed that Black women were four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. The Women and Equalities Committee claims racism plays a key role

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'I feared being labelled 'the angry Black woman' - but 5 weeks later my baby was dead'

Lois Carew Doyley had one breech birth before her second child died at five weeks old, and says she still wasn't listened to at the birth of her third baby despite knowing the treatment she needed

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