Family rights
Teachers and support staff rights to time off to deal with family-related issues, from child birth to a death in the family.
Sex and gender equality
Gender equality is not only a human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable workplace.
Advice and guidance
Sex discrimination
All teachers and educational professionals have specific protection from discrimination at work on grounds of sex, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity and transgender status, and to equal pay under the Equality Act 2010.
Women and poverty
Women are more likely to experience persistent poverty.
Toolkits
Being pregnant at work
The rights of pregnant teachers and support staff - to privacy and dignity at work, individual risk assessments, safe and fair working arrangements.
Breastfeeding women at work
How to help secure safety, privacy, dignity and equity for women who are breastfeeding on return to work from maternity leave.
Pregnancy loss and termination
Support for teachers and support staff in schools and colleges experiencing pregnancy loss or termination.
Preventing sexism & sexual harassment
This toolkit aims to help NEU members take the steps needed to prevent sexism and sexual harassment.
Working through the menopause
Menopause support - workplace guidance, adjustments, and resources for educators.
Domestic abuse and the workplace toolkit
This NEU toolkit is designed to support members affected at work by domestic abuse and to help other members, reps and leaders support them.
Publications
Adultification of Black girls in secondary education
Report out of a Westminster roundtable convened by the NEU and the All-Party Political Group on Race and Equality in Education.
It's just everywhere
A study on sexism in schools – and how we tackle it.
Teaching resources
Challenging gender stereotypes in STEM
Resources for the classroom help girls learn about female role models in STEM subjects and support their aspirations and subject choices.
Breaking the Mould
The NEU worked with five primary schools over two years to consider how ‘traditional’ gender stereotypes could be challenged in nursery and primary classrooms.
Women Chainmakers
If ever there was a moment in time to evaluate the progress made towards gender equality, that moment is now.
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