Progressive Women

Our guest blogger Laura Nelson writes a blog, Delilah, where she campaigns for equality and tries to quash stereotypes. She is also the president of Camden Speakers Club, which is part of a national association that helps people develop skills for speaking in public, and she investigated the brain for her PhD.

The United Nations has [...]

This blog was written by Caroline Watson, co-founder of Progressive Women for www.thedebate.uk.com

Last week I had the good fortune to spend the day at Wimbledon. As I was flicking through the newspapers I noticed a rather large proportion of pictures of scantily clad female tennis players. Where are the men in their boxers? Ok so [...]

Our guest blog today is from Judith Cherry, Head of Knowledge and Insight at Opportunity Now, BITC’s campaign to promote gender equality in the workplace.

Judith Cherry believes a flexible approach to work cultures gives tangible business advantage.

“The new government’s announcement that it will extend the right to request flexible working to all staff [...]

Today’s guest blog comes from Kate Buffery, former TV actor and founder of The Debate website.

The way women are presented on TV has an enormous influence on how we perceive ourselves and how we are perceived. As an actor in TV drama , I have, along with many other actors and writers spent many [...]

CAN YOU HELP?

Equity, the actors’ union has set up an online petition to canvass
viewers’ opinion re: the under-representation of women in film and TV
drama. This distortion affects women at all levels and helps to form
negative attitudes to women and in particular, older women. The
recent public outcry at the dismissal of certain female TV presenters
and journalists [...]

Clare Laxton is Parliamentary Officer at sexual health charity FPA and our guest blogger.

‘We have six priorities for sexual health for parliamentary candidates to sign up to this election. One of them is for all women in the UK, including Northern Ireland, to be able to access NHS funded abortions.

The last Parliament saw no [...]

Kat Banyard, Director of UK Feminista is our guest blogger

Stop press: newspaper headline declares that feminism might not be dead after all!
It was a rather strange experience reading the Telegraph’s headline last month, ‘Feminism Showing Signs of Life’, so accustomed are we to any mention of feminism in mainstream media being linked to [...]

Our latest guest blog is from Naomi McAuliffe, Dignity, Poverty and Human Rights Campaign Manager, of Amnesty International UK .

You know how it is every year, Mother’s Day comes around and you hurriedly get a card and some flowers from the train station on your way to see her? OK, is that just me? [...]