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Can you imagine the fuss if there would be if every time the Shadow Cabinet discussed a policy, every single time, Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper and Caroline Flint tried to start a discussion about its impact on women? They would be accused…
It has been an honour and a privilege for me to get to know some amazing women through the Labour Party and through many other walks of life. From my wonderful mother who runs a small business to my friends who do jobs as diverse as theatre…
By Kate Green MP Looking ahead to this weekend and the start of conference, I'm personally delighted that we're repeating last year's successful women's summit, that it's even more popular than last year, and that we will extend it to a…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood / @msgracefh OK comrades. A quick scroll through Twitter yesterday afternoon revealed a lot of shouting about this 'What Women Want' event at Conference in a few weeks' time. Ten points to bear in mind: One. We…
By Mark Rowney / @markrowney We don't have enough women in politics and particularly in parliament. We should therefore take steps to encourage more women to run for office and to take leadership roles in the shadow cabinet. The strategy of…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood / @msgracefh On Saturday afternoon I came out of a meeting feeling angry. This happens to me reasonably often - more so, you won't be surprised to hear, since I was elected as a councillor. Sometimes I'm angry…
By Rachael Saunders A national minimum wage that brought a million women out of poverty, increased maternity and paternity provision, tax credits to the purse not the wallet, flexible working, Surestart...our Labour government's…
By Katie McCrory / @katie_mccrory Let's try a little group experiment. Take a recent film you've seen, and ask yourself three things - does it have more than two women in it; talking to one another; about something other than men? Our…
By Ed Miliband / @ed_miliband It was in 1910 at the International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen that Clara Zetkin first tabled the idea of an International Women's Day - a day each year, in every country of the world, to press…
By Emma Burnell / @scarletstand Let's be clear - Labour has done really well on issues of Gender Equality. When you look at the Labour benches in the commons the difference is stark between our mixed benches and the swathes of men in grey…
By Kathryn Perera / @kathrynperera In closing her Conference speech, Harriet Harman paid tribute to the vitality of Labour women, whom she labelled "radical, controversial and … unstoppable." At conference, those qualities were to the fore…
By Kathryn Perera / @kathrynperera At last night's Labour leadership hustings (organised by the Fabian Women's Network and the Lead4Women campaign), we asked the candidates: "Will you commit to restoring a full funded annual Labour Party…
