There are just 4% more women in the 2010 parliament than in the one of 1997. The percentage of women in the UK parliament has slipped to number 73 in the International Parliamentary Union world league table, down 40 places in 10 years. That means women continue to be in a small minority on committees as well as in the Commons itself, while the coalition manages just four women cabinet ministers, barely a dozen junior ministers and only one – Justine Greening – in an economic department. Meanwhile, the recommendation from the Speaker's conference on representation, that parliament should consider enforcing progress towards gender parity, failed to feature in Nick Clegg's constitutional reform programme.
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There are just 4% more women in the 2010 parliament than in the one of 1997. The percentage of women in the UK parliament has slipped to number 73 in the International Parliamentary Union world league table, down 40 places in 10 years. That means women continue to be in a small minority on committees as well as in the Commons itself, while the coalition manages just four women cabinet ministers, barely a dozen junior ministers and only one – Justine Greening – in an economic department. Meanwhile, the recommendation from the Speaker's conference on representation, that parliament should consider enforcing progress towards gender parity, failed to feature in Nick Clegg's constitutional reform programme.
For more information, please visit The Guardian.