This week Jeremy Corbyn laid out his policy proposals for tackling gender inequality and discrimination faced by women in the UK. Including universal free childcare, a national carers’ strategy, restoring the now stripped funding to domestic abuse shelters and a shadow cabinet composed of at least 50% women, the proposals in his document ‘Working With Women’ far outshine anything that has so far come from the other candidates.

Focusing on everything from carer’s allowance (currently an unliveable £63 a week), anti-choice harassment outside reproductive health centres (a major problem in London and a growing one across the UK), and the dismantling of adult social care (women pensioners are far more likely to be living in poverty), Jeremy’s proposals are everything I want – and so desperately need – our Labour Party to be fighting for. Continue reading →