Visibility of Women (or lack thereof)
‘Their heads are full of cotton hay and rags’, according to Prof Higgins. Walk in any British city or town and see if, as you walk, there are any commemorative works of art. War memorials you will...
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The Fight for Equality Goes On!
I have been inspired by Paul Walter’s excellent series on this site for Black History Month. If you have as well, I encourage you to write a blog for Black History Month and send it in. American by...
View ArticleMore women in elected office will help tackle harassment and bad behaviour
Women have faced sexual exploitation and harassment since time immemorial. But today, something different is happening. Sex pests, gropers, untamed rapists, physical and mental abusers are being...
View ArticlePost-Christmas musings on the R word
The Queen has in her Christmas speech welcomed new members into the royal family in 2018. Prince Harry will soon have a mother-in-law who is African American and the young couple’s future children will...
View ArticleFloella Benjamin on trouser suits, pioneering pregnancy at work and fighting...
As recently as 1981, Floella Benjamin was a trailblazer at the BBC. It wasn’t the done thing to be pregnant and be a tv presenter. She did it. In a fascinating speech in the Lords on Monday, she talked...
View ArticleJo Swinson on sexism, making space for learning and how equal power benefits...
There’s a really good interview with Jo Swinson in online publication The Debrief. She talks about her book, Equal Power, and about how to combat the polarising culture we find ourselves in. Making...
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Equal Power, and how you can make it happen
I think Equal Power is the first book I have ever pre-ordered. I started reading it the day it came out. When I tweeted about that, Jo Swinson replied, and I promised her I would review it as soon as I...
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Lib Link: Alex Cole-Hamilton: We still don’t value women in public life
If you wander round Edinburgh, you might think that men were the only people who ever did anything important. Alex Cole-Hamilton has reflected of the lack of recognition for women in a post for the...
View ArticleSal Brinton on the change of attitude needed so that disabled people can...
Embed from Getty Images Sal Brinton was part of the House of Lords Committee which produced today’s report which reviewed the impact of the Equality Act 2010 on disabled people. Its conclusions were...
View ArticleWhat would you do if you were Mayor of Nice?
Embed from Getty Images Nice is still in shock. It’s just about a month and a half since the appalling attack which killed 84 people. That sort of carnage happening on your doorstep takes some getting...
View ArticleTwo reports highlight ongoing need for feminism
Two reports today show that feminism’s work is far from done. A worrying analysis from the Children’s Society says that 1 in 7 girls are unhappy with more than 1 in 3 being particularly anxious over...
View ArticleJo Swinson to speak at event launching Action Plan on tackling maternity...
Embed from Getty Images This Saturday, an alliance of groups including Maternity Action, chaired by former Lib Dem Minister Jo Swinson, launches an action plan aimed at tackling maternity...
View ArticleWATCH Jo Swinson launch action plan on maternity discrimination
Yesterday, Jo Swinson, as chair of Maternity Action, helped to launch an action plan aimed at tackling maternity discrimination. If you think that this stuff doesn’t go on any more, take an hour out to...
View ArticleThe role of education in creating a fairer and more equal society
My daughter recently turned four and we had to start thinking about schools for her. Not that you actually have to remind yourself of that as I sensed an almost obsessive attitude with schools and what...
View ArticleMaria Munir chosen as Girls’ Champion for BBC’s 100 Women
Lib Dem member Maria Munir, from Watford, won widespread global respect and admiration when they came out as non binary to President Obama at a town hall meeting in April this year. Let’s remind...
View ArticleBaroness Celia Thomas writes…Disability rights and Labour wrongs
Who would have thought that a valuable addition to the Licensing Act which would have made life better for disabled people had been scuppered by Labour Peers? And yet that is what happened on...
View ArticleCome to the future women MPs weekend!
The Campaign for Gender Balance (CGB) and the Diversity & Talent Support Team are pleased to announce that this year’s Future Women MPs Weekend will be held on Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 March 2017 at...
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The Fight for LGBT+ Rights: An Unfinished Rainbow?
This past weekend, Kiev, Ukraine hosted the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, an event referred to by some as ‘Gay Christmas’, with the theme ‘Celebrate Diversity’. In celebration of this...
View ArticleShould I jump into a debate with transphobic “feminists”? No.
Imagine for a moment that a group started up in your local area wanting to ban you – just you, personally – from the local post office. You would probably find it odd, a bit unnerving, but you would...
View ArticleWomen stand to lose a lot from Brexit
One of the amazing innovations with modern technology is being able to watch half forgotten programmes and films from bygone ages. Gainsborough Pictures conjure up an England of sunny summers, tea on...
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