March 27, 2013
Mary Robinson Doesn't Need to Be Popular, Ireland
Interview with Ireland's first female President.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
March 22, 2013
Women voted 75 years before they were legally allowed to in 1918, UK
A new document has surfaced which shows British women, of all classes, voting in 1843, some 75 years before they received the parliamentary franchise in 1918. History professor, Sarah Richardson, explains what this discovery means and how it was possible.
March 20, 2013
The Party Where Being a Woman Is Political - By Choice, UK
It's a great time for women, isn't it?
March 15, 2013
BGIPU hosting landmark visit of the Speaker of the Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Chairman of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU), Mr Robert Walter
March 15, 2013
Weak Odds for Women in Britain
Could the next British prime minister be a woman? A surge of rumors in Parliament means it looks marginally more plausible this week than it did last week.
March 13, 2013
Will a woman be the next British prime minister?
For years women have been treated as outsiders at Westminster. Now, the time feels right for female politicians. So can the Tories' Theresa May and Labour's Yvette Cooper seize the moment?
Violence against women in politics
Highlighting news, interviews, resources and events on violence against women in politics
March 4, 2013
Scotland: Report shows how politics is dominated by males and how the number of Scottish women elected has decreased
IN 1999, Scotland had 37 per cent female MSPs, which rose to 40 per cent in 2003 but there was drop to 33 per cent in 2007 and then a tiny rise to 35 per cent in 2011.