Women

Women in Unite

Women's National Week 15-19 November online course. 

Join our Women's National Week courses 15-19 November, on-line courses.  For more information and to sign up please see attached file [PDF].

Safety, justice and equality

Unite calls for action on violence against women amid domestic abuse bill victory - Read the UNITElive article March 2021

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International Women's Day - 8 March 2021

8 March was declared International Women’s Day by the United Nations in 1975, but the idea of an international day of women’s solidarity goes back to 1910, when women from fourteen countries meeting in Copenhagen heard a proposal from German socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin that an annual International Women’s Day be  held in each country, allowing women to voice local as well as general demands. 

Unite represents a third of a million working women across industries and services in a wide range of jobs. 

Watch the Unite video for #IWD2020 showing women fighting back in the workplace and winning and look out for more on this year's event.

Unite welcomes progress on women’s equality that has been struggled for and achieved, but is concerned at continuing discrimination, unequal pay, harassment and violence against women, and the under-representation of women in leadership at all levels. 

By joining Unite you too can get involved in achieving equality for the diversity of women of all ages.

• View our national equalities training programme for reps & members. 

Contact us

Unite national contacts 
128 Theobald’s Road, Holborn, London WC1X 8TN, email us

Siobhan Endean, national officer for equalities, 020 7611 2635

Diana Holland, assistant general secretary, transport - equalities - food, 020 7611 2640

Anooshah Farakish, research officer for equalities, 020 7611 2639

Regional women’s & equalities officers
East Midlands – Neelam Verma, 0116 253 2020
Ireland - Taryn Trainor, Belfast 028 90 029443 / Dublin +353 (0) 1873 4577 
London & Eastern - Carolyn Simpson, 0208 800 4281 
North East Yorkshire & Humberside - Sue Pollard, 0113 236 4830 
North West - Sharon Hutchinson, 0161 669 8701
Scotland - Lorna Glen, 0141 404 5424 
South East - Janet Henney, 01293 613 795 
South West - Karen Cole, 0117 923 0555 
Wales – Joanne Galazka, 02920 394521 
West Midlands - Maureen Scott-Douglas, 0121 553 6051