Current Campaigns
Parity's main current campaign is to equalise the state pension ages for men and women in the United Kingdom. Currently this is not due to take place until 2020.
Other objectives include:
- Equal state funding for treatment and research for male and female specific diseases.
- Equal liability for men and women over 60 for National Insurance contributions.
- Equal treatment of male and female victims of domestic violence.
- Better government policies to ensure a more equal gender balance in the primary school education.
- Funding for research into life expectancy inequalities between men and women.
- Equal status for separated parents and better enforcement of contact and maintenance orders.
- Equal anonymity for defendants and complainants in sex offence cases until conviction.
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