All posts by Mia Hunt

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  UK civil servants make bid for four-day working week

  Civil servants in the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have launched a campaign to work a four-day week. Staff at the department have called for a

  • Posted December 12, 2023
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  UN introduces feminist climate justice framework for policymaking

  A new UN report has set out a framework for enabling women’s contribution towards climate justice and how it can be applied to policy in practice. The report shows how

  • Posted December 6, 2023
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  Access denied: how governments can boost public servants’ cybersecurity skills

  Growing geopolitical tensions and increasingly sophisticated organised crime groups have contributed to a rise in cyber threats and breaches. At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts from the UK, Italy,

  • Posted November 28, 2023
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  Sixty senior officials speak out about ‘toxic’ behaviour towards women at UK defence department

  A group of women working in senior civilian roles at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have described a culture “hostile to women as equal and respected partners”, in which

  • Posted November 22, 2023
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  New Zealand Public Service gender pay gap falls to lowest on record

  The New Zealand Public Service gender pay gap has fallen to 7.1%, the lowest on record, according to the Public Service Commission. The figure, published as part of the government’s

  • Posted November 16, 2023
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  Number of women and girls in conflict-affected countries doubles, UN report finds

  More than 600 million women and girls lived in conflict-affected countries in 2022, a 50% increase since 2017, according to the UN’s latest report on women, peace and security. One

  • Posted November 7, 2023
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  Lack of ‘female perspective’ in No.10 led to women’s deaths during Covid, says former top UK civil servant

  A lack of gender diversity among decisionmakers in the UK prime minister’s office meant that women were not adequately considered in pandemic-related policymaking, likely leading to preventable deaths, a former

  • Posted November 2, 2023
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  Don’t dim your light: leaders share their advice for fellow public service women

  We launched the Global Government Women’s Network with a session at our AccelerateGOV conference in Ottawa, Canada, on 3 October. In it, five inspiring women leaders discussed everything from imposter

  • Posted October 25, 2023
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  Public servants have not been able to build defences for the next crisis, warns former Bank of England chief economist

  Leading economist and public policy expert Andy Haldane has warned that public servants have not had enough “relative tranquillity” to recover from more than a decade of crisis. In an

  • Posted October 19, 2023
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  UN calls on countries to include women’s reproductive health in climate plans

  Most countries’ climate plans do not include a commitment to protect the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls, a UN report has found. The report from the United

  • Posted October 17, 2023
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