Thread by @ChristinaSNP

♀️ On #InternationalWomensDay it's worth taking a look back at some of the policies @theSNP have delivered to tackle gender inequality here in Scotland. 1/12

🕴️‍♀‍ @NicolaSturgeon introduced the first gender-balanced Cabinet in the UK, one of only a handful of gender parity cabinets around the world. 2/12

🩸 Period Poverty – Scotland is the first in the world to make sanitary products available to all those who need them, free of charge. 3/12

💵 Tackling the Gender Pay gap – Set out a plan to tackle the gender pay gap and labour market inequalities faced by women with annual reports on progress to the Scottish Parliament. 4/12

👮‍♀‍ Tackling Domestic Abuse - We’ve introduced a world-leading Domestic Abuse Act that makes psychological domestic abuse and controlling behaviour a crime. 5/12

👩‍🔬 Promoting women in STEM - Introduced new measures to tackle inequality and inequity, including gender stereotypes, in STEM learning and careers from the early years onwards. 6/12

👩‍💼 Helping women return to the workforce - Funding projects which aim to increase business start-up rates for women and the number of women in senior positions and encourage men into childcare to help to change the perception of caring as ‘women’s work’. 7/12

👩 Helping young carers - The first benefit of its kind in the UK, the Young Carer Grant, started in October 2019, supporting eligible young carers with a payment of £305.10. Young carers are much more likely to be women. 8/12

👪 Supporting new families - We’re delivering the Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods payments, putting £46.9 million in the pockets of lower-income families to help with expenses during a child’s early years. 9/12

🧒 Increasing childcare support - we are delivering 600 hours of early learning and childcare, saving families up to £2,500 per child per year and helping women return to work. 10/12

📦 Introducing the Baby Box – Giving every baby born in Scotland the best start in life by providing families with a Baby Box, filled with essential items needed in the first six months of a child’s life. 11/12

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿So lets build on the progress we've made to turn Scotland into one of the best places for women to live in the world.

We can all do our own part to help if we #ChooseToChallenge misogyny wherever we see it. 12/12

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