April 2011 March 2011 Welcome to PARITY Equal Rights for UK Men and Women PARITY was first formed in 1986 as the Campaign for Equal State Pension Ages, a wholly voluntary organisation concerned with the equal rights of men and women.  It gained charitable status in January 2005 Objects The Objects of PARITY are those set out in the current PARITY constitution, namely: - to promote and protect the equal rights of men and women to the enjoyment of all civil, political, economic social and cultural rights under the law; - to institute proceedings in the UK or appropriate European Courts for the purpose of establishing or protecting any such equal rights.