Proposals for gender equality


Scotland’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls has put forward proposals intended to make Scotland a world leader in gender equality.


The Guardian has reported that the recommendations include offering two months of paid paternity leave, 50 hours of free childcare a week for all children aged between six months and five years old, and establishing a world-leading process for complainants of sexual violence.


The council was established in 2017 by first minister Nicola Sturgeon who took her inspiration from Barack Obama’s White House Council on Women and Girls.


The council’s independent chairperson, Louise Macdonald, told The Guardian that the recommendations were not only for the Scottish government to take forward, but ought to be within the remit of the public, private and business sectors.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/25/scotland-unveils-plans-to-become-world-leader-in-gender-equality