Employers must ‘follow the rules’ when EHRC code is released, says chair

Posted: 8th January 2026

Source: Employers must ‘follow the rules’ when EHRC code is released

Businesses will need to ‘follow the rules’ on single-sex spaces when guidance is finally released, according to new Equality and Human Rights Commission chair Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson.

Dr Stephenson began her role at the equality watchdog on 1 December and will oversee the publication of long-awaited guidance following April’s Supreme Court decision that legally a woman should be defined by biological sex.

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