Progressive Women

Emma Ward works for an addiction charity. She is a welcome guest writer for Progressive Women

At the Progressive Women event last year ‘Where are the women?’, female MPs’ negative portrayal in the media was cited repeatedly as one of the main barriers to women reaching the top levels in politics. I was struck at this [...]

Caroline Watson, Co-founder of Progressive Women, writes about our first Progressive Women and ANKLe Leadership workshop for 2012

I picked up this week’s copy of Stylist magazine on the tube to work on Wednesday morning. Columnist Sophie Cornish refers to Darwin: ’It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one [...]

Danielle Hamm writes about the first UK screening of Miss Representation, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, 2 February

Miss Representation is a hard-hitting film that documents the media’s portrayal of women. With the average person spending a staggering 10.45 hours exposed to media every day, the scope for influencing our thinking is [...]

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 [...]