OP-CEDAW (2005)
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW) gives women the ability to hold government to account for systemic gender inequality.
Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985
The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 criminalised performing FGM on girls and women in UK.
Warnock Report (1984)
The Warnock Report recommended the regulation of surrogacy.
Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977
The Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 increased legislative protections to women who were homeless or threatened with homelessness as a result of domestic violence.
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 made it unlawful to discriminate against either sex ‘on the ground of’ sex.
Claire Palley
Claire Palley was the first women law professor in the UK.
Life Peerages Act 1958
The Life Peerages Act 1958 allowed women to sit in the House of Lords.
Edwards v A-G of Canada (1930)
Edwards v A-G of Canada, one of the so-called ‘Persons cases’ established that women were people in law for the first time.
Averil Deverell
Averil Deverell was the first woman barrister to practise in Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales.
Madge Easton Anderson
Madge Easton Anderson was the first woman to be admitted to the legal profession in the United Kingdom.