Overcoming health and safety barriers for women

International Women’s Day 2025 was observed on Saturday 8th March, with people around the world amplifying the conversation about women’s equality and working to #AccelerateAction. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) used the global awareness day to reflect on and highlight the challenges that women still face in the field of workplace...

Aspiring to a gender equal world of work this International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day – a global day to celebrate the achievements of women, raise awareness about discrimination and highlight the actions we can take to reach gender equality – falls on Friday 8th March. The global awareness day, which isn’t country, group or organisation specific, was first held in March 1911, when it was...

Sexual harassment of girls ‘widespread’ in schools

A group of MPs has called for a government-led strategy to engage boys in relationship and sex education, improve safeguarding and tackle sexual harassment of girls. The Women and Equalities Committee have published a report in which they describe sexual harassment of girls as “a scourge” in England’s schools and claim that it is...