Greater Manchester has established a Women and Girls’ Equality Panel to accelerate gender equality, enabling women and girls to live their best life in Greater Manchester.
The panel was established in December 2020 and works to ensure that all women and girls, across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, have equality of opportunity to start well, live well and age well. It will establish a clear vision for women and girls in Greater Manchester to understand issues and inequalities impacting on their lives and recognising women and girls’ particular experience of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Panel meets four times a year, and aims to:
- Advise the Mayor and GMCA on key issues and the inequalities facing women and girls, and provide solutions
- Provide a critical voice and scrutinise the work of the Mayor and GMCA
- Undertake specific pieces of work to reduce the inequalities experienced by women and girls in the city-region and across society
In addition, the Panel will ensure that gender equality is actively considered by GMCA, and the wider Greater Manchester system, in decisions made to help make the city-region a better place to live, work, study and do business, and that a differentiated approach is adopted where appropriate.
The Panel is open to all women who want to apply and will be made up of representatives from a range of organisations and sectors, ensuring the viewpoints of women and girls, including those who have protected characteristics, from a cross-sector of society are represented. The Panel aspires to have representation across geography as well as ensuring it captures the views of women and girls from different socioeconomic groups, business, VCSE and the public sector.
The Panel particularly encourages women from diverse and minoritised backgrounds to apply as it looks to strengthen the diversity of the panel.
Greater Manchester Women and Girl's Equality Panel terms of reference
To apply email: [email protected]
Deadline: 26 June 2022