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By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis I'm no party demagogue, but Harriet Harman, I salute you today. Few know it, but today's exposure of an 80% gender pay gap in the city is to her credit. She may have climbed down on making companies publish…
By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis I'm past caring what the last week has done to Gordon Brown and the Labour Party. But I'm terrified about what it's done to women in politics. The last seven days have seen four female ministers resign from…
By Rowenna Davis / @rowenna_davis As the moats, horse manure, chandeliers and duck houses have come pouring out of the Westminster expenses bag over the last fortnight, I have been working on a series of interviews with asylum seekers. The…
By Rowenna Davis / @Rowenna_Davis At last, something positive may be coming out of "Smeargate". A coalition of Labour Party members and supporters have put the internal bitching and blaming aside, and come together to present a positive set…
By Rowenna Davis Alas it is time to take Derek Draper out of the cupboard, remove the gaffer tape and reinstate him as editor of LabourList. As I sign off as guest editor, I hope that I have not smeared too much virtual feminist custard…
By Rowenna Davis The so-called Labour bloke-o-sphere that I have been criticising for the last few days has just proved me wrong by voting for feminism. Over half of the respondents to our poll said that Labour was not doing enough to…
By Rowenna Davis I thought it would be good to take people's temperature on what Labour have done and where they should go now for women's rights. So I've come up with 5 questions for readers to answer. 1. Is Labour doing enough to support…
By Rowenna Davis UPDATE: New pictures Thirty protesters have just occupied DWP offices in central London to protest against the new welfare reform bill. The protesters - from the London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP) - are dressed as fat…
By Rowenna Davis "Real Help Now" is a comprehensive list of all the services and support that women in need are entitled to. The question is, are these services actually available to women on the ground? We're inviting you to read this…
By Rowenna Davis LabourList Guest Editor According to the UN, the average woman speaks 20,000 words a day whilst the average guy speaks just 7,000. Yet when it comes to political conversations online, women are still massively…
