Rebekah Brooks: Our New Feminist Icon?

Our latest guest blog comes from Ann Kristin Glenster an award-winning screenwriter, voting member of BAFTA, on the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television, and a Fellow at the RSA.

With the latest rumours that the Coalition wants to take another stab at working women and cut maternity leave, we could [...]

Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

Special thanks to our guest blogger Danielle Hamm who reviews Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman.

Reading Caitlin Moran’s ‘How to be a woman’ feels like a having a great conversation with a like-minded mate: it’s a side-splitting rant spattered with intelligent insight into what feminism means in modern day Britain. Caitlin doesn’t [...]

It’s Time for Some Cross-Party Action to Get More Women Elected!

This week Progressive Women met with Mary Macleod MP. Mary was one of the new intake of MPs elected at the 2010 election and she hasn’t wasted any time in getting to work. One of her first actions was to set up the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Women in Parliament. When we first [...]