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In all my years of campaigning on gender equality, I can't remember another year of success like the one we have just had. Fawcett members are pretty well accustomed to making history—we've been doing it for more than 150 years. But in 2023, we have been an unstoppable movement for equality. Fawcett members have won vital protections for women, taken on media misogyny and won, and raised up women's voices in politics. And we're not done yet.

After years of tenacious campaigning from the Fawcett team and our alliance partners, this year the Worker Protection Act became law. We couldn't be prouder that workplaces across the UK will be safer places for women in 2024 as a result. 

We were all disturbed by Jeremy Clarkson's vile and misogynistic column about the Duchess of Sussex in The Sun late last year. In July, our complaint about it to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) was upheld and the column found to be sexist. This is the first time in IPSO's history that a complaint has been upheld on the basis of sexism.

We've written on the compounded impacts of ethnicity and gender on the motherhood pay penalty. With partners at Democracy Club, we've exposed that more than 95% of local councils are male-dominated. A toxic 'tech bro' culture is pushing women out of a growing tech sector according to our report with VMO2, System Update. 

We published the UK's first ever audit of more than a decade of reports in gender equality in Parliament, as well as our own report into how to modernise parliament to retain more women, A House For Everyone. 

We've shown the disproportionate impact of childcare on women's careers, why making flexible work the default is a critical factor in closing the gender pay gap for good, and what England can learn from comparable democracies as we undergo transformation of early years education and care.
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Our energising events programme included our Equal Play webinar series, in partnership with Wates Group, supporting parents, caregivers and influential adults to resist gender stereotypes, and we were so delighted to meet so many of you at this year's AGM and conference: Women Win Elections!

This doesn't even begin to cover everything. There's our meeting with Commissioner Mark Rowley and listening event on policing, putting women on the agenda at all of this year's major party conferences, our ongoing work embedding Experts by Experience in everything we do, and our appearance at the Treasury Select Committee, plus so much more. The Fawcett team are working tirelessly to put women at the heart of social change in the UK, and with your support, we can kick goals again and again to improve the lives of women up and down the country. 

Our small-but-mighty team of 9 will be taking a well-deserved break to regroup ahead of another year of campaigning. The Fawcett office will be closed between December 22 and January 2. 

Women and girls across the UK need your support more than ever, and we hope you'll consider joining our movement. From all in the Fawcett team, we wish you a very happy festive season, and we can't wait to see you back here next year.

In solidarity,
Jemima Olchawski
Chief Executive, Fawcett Society
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