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Labour's female shadow cabinet ministers have come together to say what women's suffrage means to them in the run up to tomorrow's centenary of women over 30 achieving the right to vote. Getting the vote was a crucial step forward for the…
Following the success of the #MeToo campaign, change has swept across the world with regards to how we see sexual harassment. From Hollywood to Westminister people have been shocked at how common it is and how much we just accept it as a…
I was in the conference hall in 2016 when Tom Watson announced the creation of a new training programme for women in honour of Jo Cox, who had tragically been killed only a few months previously. Six hundred Labour women over a five-year…
Last week saw a wave of controversy over an article by Sarah Champion in The Sun in which she described "a problem with British Pakistani men" over child sex crimes. It culminated in her resignation and, we ask, was she right to quit…
Is Labour doing badly when it comes to women's representation in local government? Yes, we're doing fairly shockingly, it would seem. While we might be doing better than the Tories and Lib Dems, a new report out today shows that Labour is…
More than 3,000 more women councillors must be elected if England is to achieve a gender balance in local government, a new report has found. The increase, which would be of more than 50 per cent, is what is needed to achieve gender parity…
I am one of many who was surprised by Thursday night's election result. Labour has won new parliamentary seats under Jeremy Corbyn and he, of course, deserves praise for that - alongside all of the staff, candidates and activists who worked…
The 2017 general election sees the highest number of female candidates contesting parliamentary seats. This is an important achievement. While Labour is committed to having at least 45 per cent of candidates standing local and national…
The lack of women in Westminster is rightly decried. But with local councils spending £94bn of public money and employing 1.5m people, it is a major problem that only a third of councillors across England are women. The Fawcett Society and…
Recently in the house of commons I raised the question of how we treat survivors of domestic abuse. To be a citizen you have the right to vote, but this means little if you don’t have the ability to exercise it. For those who have…
We need to tell the stories of women in our party, and their importance to the Labour movement, Rachel Reeves urged at a Labour women's network event in parliament last night. Reeves, the former shadow work and pensions secretary, became…
It’s easy to feel down about women’s progress at the moment – not least in local government – but our women councillors give us reason to be optimistic. The situation for women in local government is not great. There are just 60 women…
