Women teachers are being systematically denied their contractual pay and working conditions, trade unionists in Birmingham heard at the weekend.
Teachers’ union NASUWT held a women’s consultation conference at the weekend to debate the burden of the coalition’s austerity policies on students and teachers.
Nearly half of delegates said they had experienced discrimination in relation to their pay and progression this year.
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
What’s behind the stubborn gender gap in Stem disciplines ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT in their column Science and Society
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK


