Inquiry launched into UK gender laws amid fears over Brexit effect

A major review into the UK?s gender discrimination laws is to be launched amid fears a potential post-Brexit move towards a lower regulation economy could see protections eroded. ?This fear of a race to the bottom and becoming this low-regulation, low-tax economy is, I think, a very real one. She said: ?Some of the basic rights that we now take for granted ? pregnancy and maternity rights, part-time workers? rights, equal pay for work of equal value ? are all at risk if the UK becomes a low-regulation economy.? The nine-month inquiry by the Fawcett Society is to be led by Dame Laura Cox, a retired high court judge, assisted by a series of lawyers, academics and others. The Fawcett Society is behind one of the dozens of amendments to the government bill to trigger article 50, which begins Brexit, seeking to prevent protections being repealed.