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All four Labour leadership candidates have committed to ensuring they would strike a 50/50 gender balance in the shadow cabinet. In interviews with Labour Women's Network representative, Emma Burnell, all four leadership hopefuls - Andy…
We have at least a 50% chance that the next leader of the Labour party is going to be a woman. We have a 60% chance that our deputy will once again be a woman. That's maths. (My ancestry, however would not forgive me if I didn't point out…
In the next 24 hours commentators will continue to make election forecasts as polls shift ever so slightly. David Cameron will take his jacket off, roll up his sleeves and talk once again about legitimacy (probably invoking a fire fighting…
Labour are today launching the Women's Manifesto, during which they'll highlight that David Cameron and the Conservatives have a 'woman problem'. The event launch will be used to highlight the fact that the burden of 85% of tax and benefit…
“Labour women will have the last laugh,” Harriet Harman declares as we ride the pink bus from Bedford to Cambridge. The bus has been mocked as patronising in the national media and even described in this way LabourList. But Harman is…
Right, let’s get this out the way: the reaction to the ‘pink van’ was somewhat predictable, and could have been avoided. But a bit of pinkwashing should not be allowed to obscure how important Labour’s efforts to engage with women - and to…
Today, Labour are launching their women's campaign - the biggest they, or any other British political party, have ever done. It'll come in the form of a 70 constituency tour (including a launch in each region), where women from the Shadow…
Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader, has announced that Labour will write a manifesto for women, alongside the usual party manifesto published before the general election. This manifesto will contain a range of issues, such as childcare, domestic…
Labour Women's Network (LWN) are holding our Christmas Drinks event tonight. It is open to everyone and we do hope you will all come. (for those of you who find it hard to get to London, we will be holding events around the country…
Today Labour are going to call for a parliamentary vote on the gender pay gap. After new evidence shows that over their life women on average earn £209,976 less than men. To coincide with the vote, Grazia magazine, in partnership with…
Following Harriet Harman's announcement today that Labour will put women at the centre of their General Election campaign, and after Yvette Cooper called on the government to protect women from anti-abortion campaigners earlier in the week…
Today I asked Equalities Minister Jo Swinson in House of Commons whether she would vote with Labour on the 16th December on our proposal to require big companies to publish their gender pay gap. She refused to do so. Given that one of the…
