Despite all the measures to enfranchise women and ensure equal representation, women still aren't securing many bums on seats. In the London assembly elections, of 151 candidates across all parties, just 52 of the candidates are women.
The Government today launched a taskforce aimed at getting women from ethnic minorities involved in grassroots politics. Women and Equalities Minister Harriet Harman said the project would aim to encourage women to stand as councillors.
To mark last week's 80th anniversary of women getting the vote, Ms. Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, posed outside the Houses of Parliament with the Electoral Reform Society dressed in 1920s outfits.
Women are slipping back from positions of power in Britain, a report suggests, as the government publishes its views on what can be done to solve the problem of women's representation in public life.
Susanna Rustin hits the campaign trail in Queen's Park. Just a few months after joining a political party for the first time, I was standing in the Queen's Park Westminster by-election. The election day was an unreal prospect. I phoned my ad-hoc campaign manager, and asked what to do.
Obligatory quotas for the number of women put forward for selection as a parliamentary candidate by each political party have been proposed. The conference on diversity issues was commissioned by the prime minister.
The Liberal Democrats face the prospect of having no female MPs after the next election if their current poll ratings continue, the Fabian Society says.
Campaigners demand reform of party selection procedures after last week's elections mostly failed to boost female representation.
Gaffes are prompting female MPs to wonder if some equal opportunities training is in order. Coalition ministers keep on putting their foot in it.