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Emma-Louise Hardman attended the Progressive Women and Camden Speakers first ever ‘Inspiring Leaders’ event this Saturday 6th November. As nearly one hundred women and a sprinkling of men gathered in a function room in North London on Saturday for a day of talks and workshops under the banner Inspiring Leaders, one question in particular burned [...] 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 [...] Suzannah Phillips is the primary author of the new report, Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive Women in Chilean Health Facilities. She is a Legal Fellow in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Two years ago, I met Francisca, a young woman from a rural town in Chile. When [...] Lucy James, a fellow Progressive Woman, attended the Feminism in London conference and writes her account below Last Saturday saw the Feminism in London annual conference. Held in Friends’ House, Euston, rather than the smaller Conway Hall down the road (last year’s venue), the organizers took the risk that the reported surge in the popularity [...] 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 [...] Free next Tuesday evening? Following on from their very successful Women in Power and Politics season, the Tricycle threatre will present a special screening of MADE IN DAGENHAM (Tues 12th October 8.15pm). You may have noticed that very few films have a female dominated cast, although it’s only too normal to see films with a [...] 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 [...] |
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