Progressive Women

Actress and writer Rhona Foulis returns with a follow up blog on burlesque. Rhona is the author of anecdotal blog cocotucker

There was something of a burlesque backlash to my recent blog.  Performers questioned what, if any, burlesque I’d seen.  Was I asexual?  Sexually repressed?  (The charge reveals as much prejudice as the accusation itself.)  Did [...]

This guest blog is written by Preethi Sundaram, Policy and Campaigns Officer, at The Fawcett Society

Where are the women? This is a question that may spring to mind when you turn on the television to watch political debate, when you read a newspaper profiling key movers and shakers in the political world and when you [...]

Alice Delemare is a member of Progressive Women. Follow Alice on twitter @alice_delemare

Have you ever wondered why you get so frustrated by some people at work? Or why you’re struggling to manage a junior member of staff? Perhaps they go through every document with a fine tooth-comb. Or maybe they want to chat to everyone [...]

Progressive Woman Lucy James writes about the latest workshop in our leadership series. Follow Lucy on twitter @LucyJames01

In certain job sectors the number of jobs held by men still vastly outnumbers jobs held by women. Whilst 73% of the public sector workforce is made up of women, in the private sector the scales are often tipped [...]