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How ironic that Sayeeda Warsi should make her dramatic exit from the Foreign Office just as it is struggling to shake off decades of prejudice against women diplomats. Baroness Warsi had seemed to be a beacon of equality: a woman, a Muslim, non-white and a Northerner. She ticked all the boxes that David Cameron needed to dispel the Tory image as the “nasty party”.
Yet there is no evidence that Lady Warsi made any impact on the long legacy of discrimination against women in the Foreign Office itself – her home territory for the last two (check) years. There have been plenty of warm words but little to show for them in the very area where she might have been expected to make a real difference.
To read the full article published on August 11th 2014, please click here.
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How ironic that Sayeeda Warsi should make her dramatic exit from the Foreign Office just as it is struggling to shake off decades of prejudice against women diplomats. Baroness Warsi had seemed to be a beacon of equality: a woman, a Muslim, non-white and a Northerner. She ticked all the boxes that David Cameron needed to dispel the Tory image as the “nasty party”.
Yet there is no evidence that Lady Warsi made any impact on the long legacy of discrimination against women in the Foreign Office itself – her home territory for the last two (check) years. There have been plenty of warm words but little to show for them in the very area where she might have been expected to make a real difference.
To read the full article published on August 11th 2014, please click here.