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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 [...] Progressive Women co-founder, Mary Hough, has re-located to Washington DC and will be writing a regular guest blog on all things stateside. Last week the American media spent a lot of time discussing Progressive Women will be sharing first hand accounts from the 3 main political party conferences. This week Lee Chalmers shares her experience of the Liberal Democrat conference. Lee runs a coaching company Authentic Living and is a delegate at this year’s Liberal Democrat conference. So I’m heading home from the Lib Dem conference feeling [...] 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 [...] This blog comes from Lucy James, Research Fellow at Quilliam the world’s first counter extremism think thank. With an estimated 47,000 victims of rape in the UK every year, and around only one in twenty reported rapes leading to a successful conviction (although this has begun to increase), everyone agrees that we need to do [...] Laura Nelson is a writer, blogger and campaigner and writes the Delilah blog Evan Davis on the Today Programme described it as a ‘hoot’, illustrating – in one throwaway sentence – why the feminist movement needs to exist. Women are paid, on average, substantially less than men, constitute a pitiful proportion of politicians and leaders [...] Our latest guest blog is from Ann Kristin Glenster an award-winning screenwriter, voting member of BAFTA, on the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television, and a Fellow at the RSA. Women’s objectification and absence from the public eye is not just confined to politics, but another manifestation of the presentation of women [...] A couple of weeks ago UK Feminista hosted a fabulously original fundraising event called Women’s Words. There was an array of talented women writers who read from their own work and discussed women in literature and the media. I learned a lot that evening and was also thoroughly entertained. We heard readings from Hannah Poole [...] ‘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 [...] |
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