Employment law now includes the right for parents to take time off after birth of a child or if their child is unwell. There have been improvements to maternity rights. Paternity leave and extended maternity rights under discussion. Now more women at senior level in business. Promotion of new forms of savings such as stakeholder pensions, flexible mortgage policies and ISAs benefit both men and women.
Savings can now be more flexible in allowing for job-hopping and career breaks.
Childcare Significantly greater childcare measures allowing women to return to employment or training Fathers now take a more active role in childcare. Access to goods and services Women now have equal access to credit agreements and mortgages. The Court of Session said that what mattered was the treatment, not the motive for it. If the treatment included sexual elements to which a women was vulnerable, but a man would not be, this was sex discrimination. Disaggregated Statistics Acknowledge work of Engender and in particular production of gender audit- arrangements for taking forward production of disaggregated statistics are included in the Strategy.