Looking to boost your confidence? Thinking about your priorities? Wanting to try something new? This course aims to help you recognise and celebrate the skills you already have.
Looking to boost your confidence? Thinking about your priorities? Wanting to try something new? This course aims to help you recognise and celebrate the skills you already have.
Advice on working through the menopause, guides and checklists for leaders and school reps and the NEU's model menopause policy.
The menopause is an occupational health issue for women educators, as well as being an equality issue. It is important that schools and colleges are suitable workplaces for menopausal women. The purpose of this guide and checklist for reps is to signpost you to advice, and to support you in improving workplace conditions for menopausal women.
NEU leadership members are key to supporting women going through the menopause in the workplace. As a leader, you’re not alone. Collaboration between leaders, governors, workplace reps, health and safety reps and a staff support network can go a long way towards creating a supportive environment for women experiencing menopause symptoms at work.
The purpose of this guidance is to suggest practical ways in which the school and college environment can be improved for women who are going through the menopause.
This briefing considers a number of important health and safety issues affecting women school staff and advises how to address them.
The legal definitions of pregnancy and maternity discrimination, who is protected and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
Information about the single-tier state pension and changes to the state retirement age.
The campaign for equal pay has a long history; one which is still ongoing.
The right to vote was a hard-won milestone in the battle for equality
Each year across the UK 3 million women experience violence, and there are many more living with the legacies of abuse experienced in the past.
The NEU is concerned about how poverty disproportionately affects women.
The results of UK Feminista and NEU’s groundbreaking study are clear: schools, education bodies and Government must take urgent action to tackle sexism in schools. "It's just everywhere" is a study on sexism in schools and how we tackle it.
Clarification of the law on mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation (FGM).
As well as statutory maternity rights, most teachers are also covered by the maternity rights scheme for teachers, set out in the Burgundy Book national agreement on conditions of service.
New research from the National Education Union and UK Feminista – “It’s just everywhere”: Sexism in schools and how we tackle it - shows that the sexual harassment of girls in schools is widespread.
75 million children, of whom 41 million are girls, do not go to primary school.
Despite Government promises, for teachers, the gender pay gap persists.
International Women's Day is a day to celebrate the role of women in the community, and wider society.
