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By Rachael Saunders / @RachaelSaunders As the ballot papers in the Labour leadership contest are about to drop, many of us will be making our final decisions on how we cast our preferential votes. If a candidate is going to win a high…
By Katie McCrory / @katie_mccrory The recent news that the Fawcett Society has filed papers with the High Court seeking a Judicial Review of the government's recent emergency budget has buoyed the hearts of families all over the country…
By Ed Balls MP / @edballsmp Equality for women is at the heart of everything Labour stands for. We championed it when we were in government and we should be proud of the success we achieved in areas from increased maternity leave to…
By Max Freedman Who was the last Labour woman to win a by-election? This should be an easy question to answer, as we know how committed the party has been to improving female representation in Parliament, as seen by the All-Women Shortlist…
By Tulip Siddiq & Debbie Moss The whole point of the Labour party is greater equality, so for women MPs the benchmark should not be other, lagging, parties, but ourselves A great man once said that this was no time for a novice. Well some…
By Tulip Siddiq & Debbie Moss The whole point of the Labour party is greater equality, so for women MPs the benchmark should not be other, lagging, parties, but ourselves A great man once said that this was no time for a novice. Well some…
By Katie McCrory / @Katie_McCrory Is Harriet Harman right to call for a forced 50/50 gender split in the Labour shadow cabinet? I can't believe, in 2010, we are even asking this question. Whilst it is true that women in the UK have as much…
By Mary Honeyball When forming the Con-Lib Dem coalition government, David Cameron claimed the UK had entered a new kind of ‘progressive’ politics. I fail to see what is progressive about a cabinet dominated by men, where women are…
By Christine Quigley / @c_quigley There's been a lot of talk recently about how various groups in society are likely to vote in the upcoming election, not least women. We've heard the contest dubbed the 'Grazia election' by no less than the…
Letters from a Swing Voter "Notice to Epicene Women: Electioneering women are requested not to call here. They are recommended to go home, to look after their children, cook their husbands' dinners, empty the slops and generally attend to…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood If you spend a lot of your time phone canvassing - and I spend so much of my time doing it that I now find it difficult to ask a question over the phone without using the phrase "on a scale of 0 to 5..." - you…
By Ceri Goddard For all the little detour issues that this election has thrown up - Airbrushgate, Biscuitgate, Non-dom Donorgate - poll after poll gives new life to Bill Clinton's line "it's the economy, stupid". The economy, the recession…
