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This week the NEC will take women's representation in the Labour Party a step forward. On Tuesday we will finalise plans to end all-male panels at Labour Party Conference. Following yet another year of all-male panels, including some…
Women are still not equal. Not in the economy, not in our politics and not in the home. Women are still not paid as much as men, are more likely to be doing the work than deciding on it and when it comes to the home, women are still…
On September 5 the ballot opens for the Labour Women’s Network 2014 elections – alongside this week’s publication of the Counting Women In report “Sex and Power in 2014”, which confirms what we already know about the current…
We’ve all heard the claims levelled at the current Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, but fewer people will be aware that Ms Miller is also Minister for Women and Equalities. Since its creation by Tony Blair in 1997, this important role…
The European elections are looming and David Cameron says he wants to 'renegotiate' Britain's deal with Brussels. We know what that means: social Europe. While he is happy for Europe to be a space for trade, he doesn’t want it as a space…
1) Join LWN 2) Audit your echo chamber 3) Consult a binder full of women 4) Immerse yourself in women’s rhetoric 5) Meet the powerful pioneers 6) Watch Made in Dagenham 7) Join the movement for girls’ education 8) Lean In 9) Get to grips…
The result of the 1997 election was groundbreaking for Labour, not only because it broke the Wilderness years and we won a landslide victory, but also because of those dubbed ‘Blair’s Babes’. 120 women were elected MPs in the election…
Last Saturday I spent a great afternoon with 60+ Labour women from across Teesside, in Middlesbrough, at the first North-East Labour Women’s Conference. It was a warm-up act for International Women’s Day in a couple of weeks on March 8th…
Today across the globe one billion people are rising up against violence against women. This year marks the 16th annual V-day, brainchild of Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler. Trafalgar Square will be the national focal point for V-day…
Ed Miliband may believe that the Tories have a "women problem" - but the majority of LabourList readers believe that the Labour Party still has some way to go in gender equality in the Commons. Our weekly survey asked if the Labour Party…
This week’s PMQ’s was hugely insightful; whether you believe Ed Miliband's action was a "stunt" or not, there is no denying Labour’s front was full of ovaries, while the Conservatives had nothing but bollocks on their benches. Ed called…
By Seema Malhotra and Ivana Bartoletti Today marks the launch of Cracks in the Glass Ceiling - the report of the Fabian Women's Network Mentoring Scheme by Birkbeck College, University of London. In the month that marks the 9th anniversary…
