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‘Where are the women?’ This is not a question we needed to ask last night as Committee Room 17 in the House of Commons was full of women, and some men, to discuss women and leadership. We were delighted to be joined by Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty; Alice Delemere of the Electoral Reform Society; [...] 6.30-8pm, Committee Room 17, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA. We’re very excited to confirm that our final line up of key contributors includes (in alphabetical order): Shami Chakribati, Director of Liberty After seeing the lack of women in the general election campaign and [...] This blog is written by Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women The new coalition government seems to be going ahead with proposals to give those accused of rape anoynimity. Despite rape convictions being extremely low, the government has decided to take proactive measures to protect the accused rather than the victim. What does this say [...] Want to know why you should come along to our next event ‘Where are the women’? Check out this short clip here to find out why you should come and have your say! Where are the Women? – 6.30pm, 21st July, Committee Room 17, House of Commons, SW1A 0AA We are pleased to confirm that Shami Chakrabarti [...] As we’ve already discussed here the past few weeks have seen a worrying roll back of women in senior positions in Westminster. So we’re delighted that this week has seen two strong women stand up for what they believe in: On Monday Trinidad and Tobago elected their very first female Prime Minister. Kamla Persad-Bissessar was [...] We were absolutely delighted this morning to hear that Diane Abbott MP, a strong, talented Labour woman, has entered the race to become Labour leader. We wish her the very best of luck! Diane Abbott’s candidacy just goes to confirm what we said yesterday – politics is no longer men only. There is space [...] Update: Diane Abbot has this morning declared her candidacy for the Labour Leadership. We’re delighted to see a woman throw her hat into the ring. But in a contest, where there is one woman out of a field of six, where are the others? There’s still time to ask talented women politicians [...] At the start of the election we started to play ‘spot the women‘ – keeping on eye on campaign and media appearances by politicians to see how many of them were women. Each party has several high-profile female figures and you could reasonably expect, especially as the parties went after women’s votes, that they [...] This week’s guest blogger is Alice Delemare, Women’s Officer for the Electoral Reform Society. This general election has become exciting. The televised leaders’ debates have made history and turned the election into a proper three-horse race. For the first time in a long while the result is no longer predictable and I, for one, am excited. [...] The election has been called, Parliament will rise at the end of this week – and MPs will return to their constituencies to fight for their seats, or in the case of at least 147 of them step down to do something else entirely. With so many MPs standing down there are certain to be a [...] |
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