Progressive Women

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

Last week I was sat in a meeting at work discussing details of a new campaign and one of my colleagues made a point that I completely disagreed with. Naturally, I wanted to talk against this and let the others round the table [...]

Progressive Women are delighted to welcome Sarah O’Malley of Women for Women International as our guest blogger  

The total number of displaced persons living in Afghanistan rose to half a million in 2012, according to a report released by Amnesty International this week. The report, ‘Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced [...]

Emma Ward works for an addiction charity. She is a welcome guest writer for Progressive Women

At the Progressive Women event last year ‘Where are the women?’, female MPs’ negative portrayal in the media was cited repeatedly as one of the main barriers to women reaching the top levels in politics. I was struck at this [...]

Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women, writes about our first Progressive Women and ANKLe Leadership workshop for 2012

I picked up this week’s copy of Stylist magazine on the tube to work on Wednesday morning. Columnist Sophie Cornish refers to Darwin: ’It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one [...]

Danielle Hamm writes about the first UK screening of Miss Representation, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, 2 February

Miss Representation is a hard-hitting film that documents the media’s portrayal of women. With the average person spending a staggering 10.45 hours exposed to media every day, the scope for influencing our thinking is [...]

Guest blogger Theadora Jean writes for Progressive Women. Theodora Jean is a feminist writer and author of the blog http://jeanniewriteshere.com

Louise Mensch is a feminist. A number of Conservative politicians are feminists in fact, and these include Theresa May, the Tory Home Secretary, amongst others.  Meanwhile, Suzanne Moore and many other leftwing feminists decry their pledges [...]