Ministerial role
Minister for Women and Equalities
Organisations:
Office for Equality and Opportunity, Race Equality Unit, Women and Equalities Unit, and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Current role holder:
The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP
Responsibilities
The Minister for Women and Equalities has strategic oversight of business and policy including:
- Tackling socio-economic disadvantage and class barriers
- Implementation of the socio-economic duty
- Ensuring equal access to pay and employment
- Women’s equality policy
- Tackling and preventing misogyny, including chairing the National Taskforce on Misogyny
- Driving progress on commitments relating to disability, race and LGBT+ policy
- The equalities legislative programme
- Protecting and promoting the Equality Act
- Fostering good relations between different groups
- Promoting equality and human rights internationally
- Sponsorship of Arm’s Length Bodies: the Equality Human Rights Commission and Social Mobility Commission
Current role holder
The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP
Bridget Phillipson was appointed Minister for Women and Equalities on 8 July 2024. She was previously Secretary of State for Education from 5 July 2024 to 20 July 2026.
She was elected as the Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South in May 2010.
Previous holders of this role
The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
2022 to 2024
The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss
2019 to 2022
The Rt Hon Amber Rudd
2019 to 2019
The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt
2018 to 2019
The Rt Hon Amber Rudd
2018 to 2018
The Rt Hon Justine Greening
2016 to 2018
The Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan
2014 to 2016