United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Scotland may be tiny, but the ambitions of its female leaders certainly are not. Teen Vogue spoke to the three parties ahead of the June 8 election in the United Kingdom to find out about female representation in Scotland, and what’s been done to bring gender parity so far.

Fewer than one in six Scottish Conservative candidates in next month’s council elections are female.

Politicians join public in condemning and ridiculing newspaper headline that leers at Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May.

Women may be deterred from entering politics because of abuse suffered by female MPs, Diane Abbott says.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has spoken out about the sexist attitudes she still battles as a senior woman politician.

An overwhelming majority of women MPs have received online and verbal abuse from the public and a third have considered quitting as a result, a BBC Radio 5 live survey suggests.