POLICIES FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY

I have written elsewhere on this blog about the importance to the Conservative Party of equality as it affects the LGBT community. The Conservatives have also published policies to improve women's opportunities. Several policies have been announced and these include:

• Measures to tackle the gender pay gap, including stronger legislation to prevent employers discriminating and better careers guidance for young women.
• The extension of the right to request flexible working to all parents with children under the age of 18.
• The introduction of a new system of flexible parental leave, so parents can decide how to divide paid maternity leave between them and are able to make use of it simultaneously.
• A new strategy to tackle violence against women, including a greater focus on preventative work in schools, better training for police and front-line professionals and new rape crisis centres.
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A Conservative government will follow a joined-up, common sense approach to women’s issues and make our society fairer for everybody. If you would like to see the two published policy documents relating to women's opportunities and the importance of tackling domestic violence, then follow this web address and the documents are there to be downloaded as pdf documents:

http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Women.aspx