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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. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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