Engender

{{Infobox nonprofit

| name = Engender

| formation = 1993 {{Cite news |url=https://tfn.scot/news/engender-marks-25-years-success-but-the-equality-battle-continues |title=Engender marks 25 years success but the equality battle continues |first=Robert |last=Armour |work=Third Force News |date=27 June 2018 |access-date=24 March 2024}}

| purpose = feminist advocacy

| location = Edinburgh, Scotland

| region = Scotland

| methods = raising awareness, training activists, research, and advocacy

| website = {{url|https://www.engender.org.uk/}}

}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}

{{Use Scottish English|date=January 2017}}

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Engender is an anti-sexist organisation operating in Scotland and other parts of Europe. They aim "to make Scotland a fairer, safer place where women can flourish and contribute to both the social and market economies with dignity, freedom and justice."{{Cite web |url=http://www.engender.org.uk/ |title=Engender |accessdate=2011-03-24}} Engender's goals include increased public awareness of sexism and its detrimental effects on society, equal representation of women in government, and training women activists at the local level.

Engender was founded in the early 1990s{{Cite book |title=Gender in Scottish history since 1700 |first=Lynn |last=Abrams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crn_FiIn6FkC&pg=PA73 |page=73 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2006|isbn=9780748617616 }} as a research and campaigning organisation.{{Cite book |first=Alexandra |last=Dobrowolsky |title=Women's movements facing the reconfigured state |editor-last=Banaszak |editor2-last=Beckwith |editor-first=Lee Ann |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkYsZin5yTwC&pg=PA130 |page=130 |chapter=Shifting States: Women's Constitutional Organizing Across Time and Space |year=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-01219-5 |editor2-first=Karen}} They are based in Edinburgh.

Fundings for Engender are received from various organizations but their main grant funder is the Scottish Government Equality Fund. Engender's website includes different policy focuses within the site such as abortion, social security, women's rights, and disabled women. These tabs are there to raise awareness on the issues as well as inform the readers.

Engender unequivocally supports the decriminalization of abortion and believes that the Scottish government should improve access, support and services around reproductive rights. "Women's and equalities organizations are very concerned about plans to pay Universal Credit to households, not individuals, which undermine women's financial independence, safety and equality."