Join us for the launch of the Gender Equality Index UK (GEIUK) — the first comprehensive measure of gender equality across 372 local authorities revealing that no area has achieved full parity between women and men.

The GEIUK highlights significant variations in outcomes across local authorities and challenges the idea that gender equality is a zero-sum game. Instead, it shows that areas with greater gender equality tend to exhibit better outcomes for everyone.

Our panel will explore the complex links between gender equality, regional disparities and economic productivity, including why areas where men take on more unpaid work show higher overall outcomes.

They’ll also unpack the gendered dimensions of the UK’s enduring North–South divide and discuss targeted policy interventions to close the most significant gender gaps identified by the GEIUK.

Speakers:

• Maya Oppenheim - Freelance journalist and former Women’s Correspondent at the Independent
• Professor Kate Pickett - Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of York and Director of the Born in Bradford Center for Social Change

• Dr Caitlin Schmid - Research Fellow at the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership
• Dr Danny Sriskandarajah - Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation
• Julia Gillard - 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership (chair)