Britain’s boys do seem to be having an increasingly poor time of it. Poorer academic achievement than girls, more neurological problems, tacit suppression of emotional difficulties, increasing mental health problems,…
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…
Although recognised for many centuries, the problem of domestic violence first became a real political iissue in western societies in the early 1970s. In the UK, Erin Pizzey founded in…
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…
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…
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…
Background: Prior to April 2007, sex discrimination law in England and Wales was based on various items of primary legislation and statutory instruments, and a range of guidance documents. The…
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 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…
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…
London Mayor’s campaign - Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) See links below: https://www.london.gov.uk/content/have-a-word# and https://www.london.gov.uk/node/64025 In response to this, Parity Trustees have produced the stickers shown below to bring to attention…
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…
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…
Please find a list of organisations, that can provide support and resources for Male Victims Of Domestic Abuse. Families Need FathersThe Mankind Initiative AmenMale Survivor Partnership Families Need Fathers 134…