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Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Women Know Less About Politics Than Men, Especially In Britain, Study Finds
Women still know less about politics than men despite progress in sexual equality, especially in Britain, academics have said. A study of 10 nations found an "unmistakable gender gap" even in apparently progressive richer nations. The division was...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
100 years on from Emily Davison’s death, her battle is not yet won, UK
In April’s local elections, only one in three of those eligible to vote actually did so. What proportion of those voters were women? It’s difficult to get an exact percentage, but in most UK elections, women account for just under half of the...
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Action urged on council election 'glass ceiling' for women after dismal Anglesey showing, Wales
The Welsh Government has been urged to address the “glass ceiling” of women standing for council seats after local elections on Anglesey saw just three women councillors returned. A report by the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) in Wales obtained by...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
It's tough being a woman TD in a Dail chamber run by the boys, Ireland
WITH just 25 women TDs in the Dail, it's perhaps unfair to expect the debate on the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill to be more feminised than it has been to date. Fortunately, women are well represented in the medical professionals informing...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
Why don't young women stay in UK politics?
Lots of vibrant young women enter UK politics - but only a few of them stand the test of time. Twenty-five year-old Charlotte Henry, a former Liberal Democrat candidate in the May 2010 London Assembly election and political blogger, explores why,...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
WOMEN AND THE TRANSITION FROM CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND: LESSONS FOR PEACE-BUILDING IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE
When we take the experiences of women seriously, the lessons that we can draw from the Northern Ireland peace process for future peace tracks in the Middle East are not necessarily the same lessons that are highlighted in popular comparisons of the...
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Cameron promises to do more to promote female ministers, UK
  Mr Cameron has been criticised because only four full members of his Cabinet are women. Before the last election, he pledged to make sure one third of all his ministers are female, a target he has missed. When Lady Thatcher became Prime...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Margaret Thatcher paved the way for us female Tory MPs
Margaret Thatcher didn’t smash the political glass ceiling. She refused to acknowledge its existence and my female Conservative colleagues and I are the beneficiaries of her fearless approach, writes Amber Rudd.   (We invite our users to read the...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
What did Margaret Thatcher do for women?
What did Margaret Thatcher do for women? Nothing. I faced her properly for the first time in the mid-1980s, although I had covered her progresses around the south of England for some years as a reporter for BBC South and subsequently for Newsnight....
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Monday, April 08, 2013
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female PM, dead at 87
London (CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87. She suffered a stroke Monday, her spokeswoman...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Mary Robinson Doesn't Need to Be Popular, Ireland
Interview with Ireland's first female President. In your memoir, “Everybody Matters,” you write that you were the third child amid four boys. Do you think having so many brothers affected your political path? I do joke that this is the start of my...
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Women voted 75 years before they were legally allowed to in 1918, UK
A new document has surfaced which shows British women, of all classes, voting in 1843, some 75 years before they received the parliamentary franchise in 1918. History professor, Sarah Richardson, explains what this discovery means and how it was...
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Monday, March 18, 2013
More women in politics - how? , Scotland
Could the debate on Scotland's future be an opportunity to push for a more equal society? That was the question posed at a conference in Edinburgh this week - which asked if our European counterparts have the right idea when it comes to getting...
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Friday, March 15, 2013
BGIPU hosting landmark visit of the Speaker of the Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Chairman of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU), Mr Robert Walter MP, welcomed the arrival of a delegation from the Majils Ash-Shura, the Parliament of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia led by the Speaker, H.E. Dr. Abdullah ibn...
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Weak Odds for Women in Britain
Could the next British prime minister be a woman? A surge of rumors in Parliament means it looks marginally more plausible this week than it did last week. Theresa May, the home secretary, has come under the spotlight for apparently harboring...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Will a woman be the next British prime minister?
For years women have been treated as outsiders at Westminster. Now, the time feels right for female politicians. So can the Tories' Theresa May and Labour's Yvette Cooper seize the moment?   (We invite our readers to read the full article published...
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Monday, March 04, 2013
Scotland: Report shows how politics is dominated by males and how the number of Scottish women elected has decreased
IN 1999, Scotland had 37 per cent female MSPs, which rose to 40 per cent in 2003 but there was drop to 33 per cent in 2007 and then a tiny rise to 35 per cent in 2011. (Read article at: Daily Record)
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Violence against women in politics
Highlighting news, interviews, resources and events on violence against women in politics
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