Progressive Women

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 [...]

Kate Smurthwaite is a comedienne and political activist.  Twitter @Cruella1, blog www.cruellablog.blogspot.com

As the Leveson Enquiry is showing, there are an awful lot of journalists who wouldn’t recognise basic human decency if it stood up in their soup and bit them on the nose. The enquiry into press standards has however done nothing to improve the [...]

Judy Oliver, founder of ANKLe (A New Kind of Leadership) and leadership coaching business Oliver and Company, speaks to Caroline Watson about shaping a successful career. Judy will be faciliating our Leadership training workshop on Weds 8 Feb, ’Understanding Change and Transition’. Find out more and reserve your place here

After establishing a successful career in the public sector what made you decide to [...]

Sarah O’Malley works at Women for Women International.

During December 2011 the world’s attention was drawn to two high profile cases of violence against Afghan women.

The first was the case of Gulnaz, a woman jailed for adultery after being raped by her cousin’s husband. After national and international outcry Gulnaz received a pardon from Afghan president [...]

Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women, writes about good books to read in 2012. Follow Progressive Women on twitter @sylviapankhurst

Having received some fantastic books by women about women for Christmas I got excited about sharing my enthusiasm with Progressive Women followers on our blog. So here are some suggested reads for 2012 – they’re not [...]

Actress and writer Rhona Foulis returns with a follow up blog on burlesque. Rhona is the author of anecdotal blog cocotucker

There was something of a burlesque backlash to my recent blog.  Performers questioned what, if any, burlesque I’d seen.  Was I asexual?  Sexually repressed?  (The charge reveals as much prejudice as the accusation itself.)  Did [...]

This guest blog is written by Preethi Sundaram, Policy and Campaigns Officer, at The Fawcett Society

Where are the women? This is a question that may spring to mind when you turn on the television to watch political debate, when you read a newspaper profiling key movers and shakers in the political world and when you [...]

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

Have you ever wondered why you get so frustrated by some people at work? Or why you’re struggling to manage a junior member of staff? Perhaps they go through every document with a fine tooth-comb. Or maybe they want to chat to everyone [...]

Progressive Woman Lucy James writes about the latest workshop in our leadership series. Follow Lucy on twitter @LucyJames01

In certain job sectors the number of jobs held by men still vastly outnumbers jobs held by women. Whilst 73% of the public sector workforce is made up of women, in the private sector the scales are often tipped [...]