Progressive Women

Clare Laxton is the Policy and Parliamentary Manager at FPA. FPA is one of the UK’s leading sexual health charities – find out more www.fpa.org.uk

Choice. It’s a word bandied around a lot, and one with many meanings to many people. As a noun, www.dictionary.com defines choice in five ways:

1     An act or instance of choosing; [...]

Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women, writes of the successful launch of the new Leadership series of workshops

Parachutes, paperclips and a wildlife photogapher. That about sums up my Wednesday evening. This week Progressive Women launched their first leadership event. Working with the fabulous, inspiring and talented women at ANKLe we are offering leadership development training [...]

Mukulika Banerjee, London School of Economics, writes on the lecture series that looks at the Goddess and the Modern Indian Woman which is taking place on 6, 13, 20, 31 October, 7pm at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies.

We are now half way through this lecture series, sponsored by the [...]

Progressive Woman Caroline Watson writes about the half naked woman at the breakfast table:

Every time I pick up a tabloid newspaper I am unpleasantly surprised that Page 3 still displays a scantily clad, half naked woman. Is it naive to think that in a country where women won the right vote almost 100 years ago [...]

By Rebecca Parnell, Women for Women International

When the suffrage movement finally won women the right to vote, it couldn’t be imagined that women would be forced into giving up their freshly won freedom from patriarchy. It would have been a joke to expect women to retire their hard earned rights to equal pay, denounce the [...]

Progressive Woman Lucy James attended last week’s Conservative Party conference. You can follow Lucy on twitter @lucyjames01

The Conservatives have a “woman problem”.

In order to win a majority in 2015, they need to secure the female vote. But a range of polls have showed that they are losing popularity amongst women. Recently, a leaked internal memo [...]

Our guest blogger is Rebecca Findlay, Press and Campaigns Manager at the FPA

Child “Dad, what does giving someone a blow job mean?’

Dad: “Mmmm, not sure. Go ask your mother…”

 A terrible cliché, but a glimmer of truth does reveal itself in this scenario. Of course there are loads of dads who aren’t afraid to answer questions [...]

This guest blog comes from Dee, a freelance writer who has quite recently relocated to London.  She specializes in the travel industry but also writes for a current bank accounts website based in the U.K.

 As the Conservative Party Conference takes place this week, we might consider what was the legacy of one of the Conservatives’ most iconic [...]