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Women in public life

In this series of comment pieces, we ask: is it enough to have more women in power - or do they also have to work to actively further women's equality when they're there?


The crisis in Rape Crisis


By Darlene Corry, WRC Policy Officer

Subtext Magazine - August 2008

Recent research by the Women's Resource Centre (WRC) and Rape Crisis (England and Wales), The Crisis in Rape Crisis, shows that Rape Crisis centres are spectacularly under-funded.
UN backs Rape Crisis

By Darlene Corry, WRC Policy Officer

New Statesman online - August 2008

The Women's Resource Centre welcomes international recognition, at UN level, that the financial situation facing Rape Crisis centres is unacceptable.

Uncovering the state of the Rape Crisis sector

By Tania Pouwhare, WRC Head of Policy

WRC Source magazine - May 2008

In March 2008, WRC and Rape Crisis (England and Wales) launched joint research on the state of the Rape Crisis sector.


Money is not enough

By Vivienne Hayes, WRC Chief Executive

New Statesman online - 19 March 2008

Support services for victims of sexual violence need an urgent injection of political will as well as cash.


Why women-only?

By Kiran Dhami, WRC Policy Officer

VS Magazine - December07/January08

The current political climate of gender neutrality means that funders are increasingly asking women's organisations to justify their women-only status.
Why women?

By Kiran Dhami, WRC Policy Officer

NAVCA Circulation magazine - December07/January08

The Women's Resource Centre has moved into the second phase of its 'Why women?' campaign.
Will the Women's Sector be mainstreamed out of existence?

By Vivienne Hayes, WRC Chief Executive

SAFE magazine - Autumn 2007

The government now acknowledges the scale and severity of domestic violence. Real progress has been made, so are we now at a turning point in tackling violence against women?
On the Verge of Equality?

By Darlene Corry, WRC Policy Officer

Verge magazine - June 2006

With Feminism firmly on the agenda, are we closer than ever to equality?
One size does not fit all

A response to Ted Cantle’s article on community cohesion by Isabel Hudson (Women’s Resource Centre), Dinah Cox (Race On The Agenda) and Trish Pashley (Greater London Action on Disability)

NAVCA Circulation magazine - February/March 2006

Two women discussing



Women working together