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Progressive Woman Lucy James attended this week’s Labour Party Conference Political mud-slinging will always be standard practice. It was inevitable that at a Labour conference, the Coalition would be getting the blame for ‘rolling back the clock’ on female equality – even more so at a conference where Labour were in opposition. Yvette Cooper, [...] Progressive Women are delighted to announce a series of Leadership Development workshops in partnership with ANKLe (a New Kind of Leadership). Following on from our mentoring events earlier this year we will be hosting a series of top quality training sessions with experienced professional trainers to help women develop their leadership skills. This is a [...] Lee Chalmers writes about her experience of this year’s Lib Dem conference. Lee is a development consultant, and is on the Liberal Democrats’ approved candidates’ list. Liberal Democrat conference this year held several surprising things worth mentioning in relation to women. Whilst there were plenty of policy motions that I didn’t go to and [...] Theadora Jean writes our latest blog. She is a feminist writer and blogs at: http://jeanniewriteshere.com Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a hero. During Ali’s childhood, she endured genital mutilation, domestic servitude, physical beatings, and a forced marriage. Somehow this young woman had the nerve to bolt when she had the chance, fleeing to the Netherlands where [...] Our guest blog is from Rhona Foulis, actress, tutor and writer of the anecdotal blog Coco Tucker A few months ago I was being interviewed as PA to a wheelchair-bound performer: physically disabled; vocally, artistically and soulfully very enabled. I’m nodding along to a précis of her extensive portfolio when she pipes up: “I [...] Our guest blog is from Rhona Foulis, actress, tutor and writer of the anecdotal blog Coco Tucker As a prepubescent actress at an all-girls’ school I had the chance to play a plethora of roles. In fact, I mostly cross-dressed: from a Scottish medieval knight to a chain-smoking, juvenile delinquent. The opportunity to be [...] This blog is written by Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women. I like shorts, the shorter the better. That is I like looking at other women wearing shorts. All the women we see in posters or on tv or in magazines have the smoothest, dimple free legs. Only in real life and most notaby in [...] |
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