Lee Webster is Campaigns Manager for CARE International UK. She runs the Voices Against Violence campaign, which calls for an end to violence against women in conflict.
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This week the latest attempt to fix the pay gap between men and women in the USA was stalled, after the Paycheck Fairness Act failed to get past the Republicans in the Senate. Women in the US earn, on average, 80% of men’s median pay. And the gap is much greater for African-American women, who [...] America goes to the polls on Tuesday for the mid-term elections. The whole of the House of Representatives (one half of Congress) is elected every two years, and one third of the Senate (the other half of Congress) is also up for re-election. With commentators predicting that the Democrats are likely to loose [...] How will the announcements in the Comprehensive Spending Review impact on you, your friends, your colleagues and the people you work with? We round up the best of the coverage, reaction and comment looking at the many impacts the spending decisions announced on Wednesday will have on women. Fawcett’s initial response to the CSR In July, at the end of our ‘Where are the women’ discussion we asked each one of our panel members what one thing she was going to do to promote women in leadership. Maria Eagle, the Labour MP for Garston and Halewood, declared that she was going to stand for the Shadow Cabinet. [...] Ellie Cumbo is a policy researcher, campaigner and activist; she recently led on the development of Oona King’s women’s policy. Ellie comments on why Oona’s campaign and recent events of the Labour party are so important for women and for politics. This week, new Labour leader Ed Miliband unveiled a shadow cabinet in which women hold [...] Emily Dover attended this week’s Conservative Party conference as a Attending a Conservative Party conference when they are part of the government is a novel experience for me (this might seem to be a banal statement but judging by the age of some of [...] Nargis Khan was a senior Labour Councillor in Hackney for 8 years and writes from the Labour Party conference in Manchester The Labour party conference began with much anticipation about the election of the future leader following a four month campaign that saw four men and one woman battle it out attending 100’s of hustings, meeting [...] Progressive Women will be sharing first hand accounts from the 3 main political party conferences. This week Lee Chalmers shares her experience of the Liberal Democrat conference. Lee runs a coaching company Authentic Living and is a delegate at this year’s Liberal Democrat conference. So I’m heading home from the Lib Dem conference feeling [...] This week is TUC week. Nicola Smith, Senior Policy Officer at the TUC writes this week’s guest blog. It’s easy to talk about cuts in the abstract – and to presume that there are large-scale painless efficiencies across the public sector that will allow us to reduce our deficit with ease. But the reality is [...] |
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