The Guardian: Why the new women and work all-party parliamentary group matters
Back
Print article
United Kingdom
World News
World News
Is not having children the price women pay for political success?
Back
There are many advocates for gender quotas to help women advance in politics - including front-bench politicians like Frances Fitzgerald. But sometimes events overtake arguments, and the astonishing rise of Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, may be an example of a woman who has become a game-changer in British politics entirely on her own merit, without any recourse to gender politics.
Print article
There are many advocates for gender quotas to help women advance in politics - including front-bench politicians like Frances Fitzgerald. But sometimes events overtake arguments, and the astonishing rise of Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, may be an example of a woman who has become a game-changer in British politics entirely on her own merit, without any recourse to gender politics.
World News
Millennials, not Mumsnet: Younger women and the 2015 election (United Kingdom)
Back
Should politicians be appearing on programmes like the X Factor to reach new audiences?
Or should they be breaking down complex political subjects and putting them in simpler terms to get more potential voters interested?
These were some of the ideas being bandied around at an event in Portcullis House in Westminster to mark the end of Parliament Week.
Print article
Should politicians be appearing on programmes like the X Factor to reach new audiences?
Or should they be breaking down complex political subjects and putting them in simpler terms to get more potential voters interested?
These were some of the ideas being bandied around at an event in Portcullis House in Westminster to mark the end of Parliament Week.
World News
Girl guides venture into the political jungle: Movement calls for school lessons in 'body confidence' and equal numbers of men and women in Parliament in first manifesto
Back
Girl guides venture into the political jungle: Movement calls for school lessons in 'body confidence' and equal numbers of men and women in Parliament in first manifesto
Source:
The Girl Guides once taught young women to cope away from civilisation with camping trips and nature skills.
Now, they are more concerned with helping them face the challenges of modern life.
The youth group yesterday took its first step into politics, demanding school lessons in body confidence and equal numbers of men and women in Parliament.
Print article
The Girl Guides once taught young women to cope away from civilisation with camping trips and nature skills.
Now, they are more concerned with helping them face the challenges of modern life.
The youth group yesterday took its first step into politics, demanding school lessons in body confidence and equal numbers of men and women in Parliament.
World News
Forget quotas for women Members of Parliament – time to limit the number of men
Back
Rebecca Naden/PA Wire
When we talk about “gender quotas”, what we really mean is quotas for women. We see the under-representation of women as the problem that needs fixing. So we try to explain why there aren’t more women in politics, then look at measures to boost women’s representation.
Print article
Rebecca Naden/PA Wire
When we talk about “gender quotas”, what we really mean is quotas for women. We see the under-representation of women as the problem that needs fixing. So we try to explain why there aren’t more women in politics, then look at measures to boost women’s representation.
World News
Why British women need a diplomatic coup
Back
Photo-Getty Images
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”.
Print article
Photo-Getty Images
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”.
World News
David Cameron brings tranche of young, tech-friendly women into the House of Lords (UK)
Back
From top left, clockwise: Dido Harding, Karren Brady, Nosheena Mobarik and Joanna Shields Photo: PA/Bloomberg
A host of young, digitally savvy women are being made peers by David Cameron including the head of telecoms company and a former Google executive.
Print article
From top left, clockwise: Dido Harding, Karren Brady, Nosheena Mobarik and Joanna Shields Photo: PA/Bloomberg
A host of young, digitally savvy women are being made peers by David Cameron including the head of telecoms company and a former Google executive.
World News
Lucy Powell-British Member of Parliament: We need to have even more women entering politics
Back
Women in politics is high on the agenda this week after David Cameron's reshuffle which his own spin doctors rather unfortunately dubbed a ‘catwalk reshuffle’.
More women ministers is a welcome development but with just half as many women in his cabinet as Tony Blair did seven years ago, the PM still has some catching up to do.
Print article
Women in politics is high on the agenda this week after David Cameron's reshuffle which his own spin doctors rather unfortunately dubbed a ‘catwalk reshuffle’.
More women ministers is a welcome development but with just half as many women in his cabinet as Tony Blair did seven years ago, the PM still has some catching up to do.
World News
Lib Dem all-women shortlist considered post-2015, United Kingdom
Back
The Lib Dems could introduce positive discrimination to redress the party's gender and ethnic imbalance, one of its cabinet ministers has said.
Seven of the the Lib Dems' 57 MPs are women - numerically and proportionally the fewest of the three major Westminster parties. All of the party's MPs are white.
We invite our users to read the full article published September 19 2013
Print article
The Lib Dems could introduce positive discrimination to redress the party's gender and ethnic imbalance, one of its cabinet ministers has said.
Seven of the the Lib Dems' 57 MPs are women - numerically and proportionally the fewest of the three major Westminster parties. All of the party's MPs are white.
We invite our users to read the full article published September 19 2013