Where are the women? Over the last few days, we have heard a number of voices wondering where they have all gone. Yesterday morning on the Today programme, Anne McElvoy asked why it is so hard to imagine another woman becoming prime minister. And in the Guardian Bidisha recently called the poor representation of women in the media and arts "cultural femicide".
The facts are incontrovertible. If you look at any cultural or political event, from the leaders' debate to a summer literary festival, you will keep seeing the same thing. Unless you walk into one of those spaces constructed to change the rules, like last night's debate among women politicians organised by the Fawcett Society and the London School of Economics, or the award of the Orange prize this summer, women are being outnumbered or squeezed out entirely.
To read the complete news story please visit The Guardian.
Where are the women? Over the last few days, we have heard a number of voices wondering where they have all gone. Yesterday morning on the Today programme, Anne McElvoy asked why it is so hard to imagine another woman becoming prime minister. And in the Guardian Bidisha recently called the poor representation of women in the media and arts "cultural femicide".
The facts are incontrovertible. If you look at any cultural or political event, from the leaders' debate to a summer literary festival, you will keep seeing the same thing. Unless you walk into one of those spaces constructed to change the rules, like last night's debate among women politicians organised by the Fawcett Society and the London School of Economics, or the award of the Orange prize this summer, women are being outnumbered or squeezed out entirely.
To read the complete news story please visit The Guardian.