Progressive Women

Kate Smurthwaite is a comedienne and political activist.  Twitter @Cruella1, blog www.cruellablog.blogspot.com

As the Leveson Enquiry is showing, there are an awful lot of journalists who wouldn’t recognise basic human decency if it stood up in their soup and bit them on the nose. The enquiry into press standards has however done nothing to improve the [...]

Judy Oliver, founder of ANKLe (A New Kind of Leadership) and leadership coaching business Oliver and Company, speaks to Caroline Watson about shaping a successful career. Judy will be faciliating our Leadership training workshop on Weds 8 Feb, ’Understanding Change and Transition’. Find out more and reserve your place here

After establishing a successful career in the public sector what made you decide to [...]

Sarah O’Malley works at Women for Women International.

During December 2011 the world’s attention was drawn to two high profile cases of violence against Afghan women.

The first was the case of Gulnaz, a woman jailed for adultery after being raped by her cousin’s husband. After national and international outcry Gulnaz received a pardon from Afghan president [...]

Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women, writes about good books to read in 2012. Follow Progressive Women on twitter @sylviapankhurst

Having received some fantastic books by women about women for Christmas I got excited about sharing my enthusiasm with Progressive Women followers on our blog. So here are some suggested reads for 2012 – they’re not [...]