Tag Archives: Gender equality

Comment: We’ve made great strides, but there’s more to do in the quest for gender equality

By Guest | Published: January 25, 2013

Jennette Arnold AM, the Labour Group equalities spokesperson on the London Assembly, writes about the battle that still needs to be fought for gender equality.

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Tories denounce boardroom quotas, as report says male-dominated boards will fall behind

By Katie Stanton | Published: May 29, 2012

The UK government will not support quotas to get more women into the boardroom – as a report says all-male companies will fall behind.

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Women, politics and the crisis: We cannot ignore gender in politics

By Guest | Published: January 16, 2012

Vera Baird QC presents the state of politics for women today.

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We need more female councillors for everyone’s benefit

By Guest | Published: October 29, 2011

Tulip Siddiq argues that increasing the number of female councillors should be a priority for a number of reasons, from justice, through to the positive effects it will have on policy and the outcome it will have in Westminster.

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The lack of women in Westminster has gone on for too long

By Guest | Published: October 25, 2011

Nan Sloane writes about the launch of the Counting Women In campaign, dedicated to improving the number of women involved in all levels of electoral politics in the UK

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Two weeks after ‘fixing’ it, Cameron creates a new “women problem”

By Alex Hern | Published: October 17, 2011

Alex Hern writes about the coalition’s plans to slash maternity leave, and the coalition’s wider problems with female voters.

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Cameron, Clarke, Dorries, Willetts… The Tories keep screwing up on gender equality

By Daniel Elton | Published: May 22, 2011

Why is it that Conservatives have such a problem with gender equality and women’s issues? The last two months alone have featured a litany of misteps by Tories.

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Women’s History Month Profiles: Margaret Bondfield

By Guest | Published: March 6, 2011

Margaret Bondfield (1873-53) was the first female member of cabinet, and among the first women MPs not come either from an aristocratic background or ‘take over’ her seat from her husband, being elected with the first generation of women Labour MPs.

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Women’s History Month Profiles: Mary Wollstonecraft

By Guest | Published: March 5, 2011

Wollstonecraft’s writing seriously shows that the personal is political, for she took the fact her family viewed her education as less important than her brother’s and made it her political raison d’être.

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Fawcett Society: We need positive action to break through the glass ceiling

By Guest | Published: February 24, 2011

Anna Bird, acting CEO of the Fawcett Society, outlines how far big business has to go on gender equality, and what strategies may help it to redress the balance.

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