The Beginning: When planning the first Sex Discrimination Act (1975) in the early 1970s, it is believed that Barbara Castle had wished to include an equal state pension age of…
Legal Action: Two years later, CESPA backed a similar case by member John Taylor on winter fuel payments, when again the ECJ ruled in 1999 that such provision had no…
The Objectiives of PARITY are those set out in the current PARITY constitution, namely: - To promote and protect the equal rights of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil, political, economic…
Through litigation in the courts applying European Union or European Convention law binding (by statute or treaty) in the UK, PARITY has instigated cases resulting in: Equal Qualifying ages for…
Inferior preventative health care: One man in five dies before the age of 65. Despite this background, there is an impression that, in some aspects of health care, men are…
The combination of feminism and the welfare state will reduce the status of fathers to that of household pets - a prediction attributed to Bertrand Russell in the 1930s. For so many fathers in our society, who have experienced parental breakdown and separation, this is a prediction that has become all too true. About half of all children now born in the UK are to unmarried mothers. A report published in 2013 by the Centre for Social Justice < >said…
Latest Figures shown, from 41 police forces across England and Wales showed that 158,974 men reported to them as being victims of domestic abuse in 2017 – one in four…
The Beginning: The pension age difference also applied to the widespread extent of discriminatory treatment of older men in non-statutory concessions, such as higher entrance charges applying to men than…
Here is the latest News Briefing from PARITY: News Items: Parity AGM Open Session – Mark Brooks - The Latest on the Political Landscape for Men and Boys’ IssuesParity AGM…
Campaign for Equal State Pension Ages: History input by John Taylor - from transcript, dated 1st July, 1996 - provided by David Yarwood, Founder Secretary, CESPA (founded 29th August 1986)…