The organisation's vision is a society in which women and girls in all their diversity are equal and free to fulfil their potential, creating a stronger, happier, better future for all.

[12] In September 2020 the Society called upon the Chancellor to assist the childcare sector in the Autumn 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review, arguing that funds allocated to the UK's furlough scheme will have been wasted if parents are unable to work.

[14] The Society has been criticised by business groups for comparing average pay for full-time men with average-pay for part-time women to highlight the disparity,[15] and a lack of transparency in making their methodology clear.

Politicians who wore the shirt in public included Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, and Harriet Harman, though Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly declined.

[21] The £45 shirt was produced in a Mauritian factory where it was believed migrant workers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India and Vietnam were paid less than a pound a day, slept 16 to a room, and otherwise kept in sweatshop conditions.

[23] Work starts in 2024 on a two year project, a commission into public harms, by both the Fawcett Society and the Black Equity Organisation, and supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust.