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Monday, July 24, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Sophia Duleep Singh: Indian princess who fought for women to vote in UK
BBC News
Sophia Duleep Singh, a princess who fought for women's voting rights in the UK, remains a little-known figure in India, the country of her ancestry. In 1910, she was part of a delegation of 300 suffragettes who marched towards the parliament in...
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Sexual harassment claims dealt with too slowly in politics, says Caroline Nokes
The Guardian
Sexual harassment complaints in parliament are dealt with too slowly and opaquely, the chair of the Commons equalities committee has said, after concerns were raised over a former Downing Street special adviser. Caroline Nokes said she believed...
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Source: Shetland News
Monday, June 12, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Scottish Government event to encourage women into politics
Shetland News
An event is taking place at Lerwick Town Hall later this month to celebrate and encourage women in the political sphere. A core event is being held at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, and it will be livestreamed to Lerwick Town Hall. \Scotland’...
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Heledd Fychan being sworn into the Senedd remotely, with her son alongside her - BBC
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Senedd must become more family-friendly, politicians say
BBC
Virtual Senedd meetings should continue long after Covid to make politics accessible to all, a politician with an eight-year-old son has said. Heledd Fychan said hybrid working in the pandemic meant she could balance the needs of her job and her...
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Scotland launches women’s audit to look at barriers to entering Holyrood - The Guardian
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Scotland launches women’s audit to look at barriers to entering Holyrood
The Guardian
Exclusive: presiding officer Alison Johnstone says it will be disappointing if parliament cannot attract more female politicians. It will be “really disappointing” if the Scottish parliament cannot attract more female politicians within the next...
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Labour’s Pam Duncan-Glancy, the first permanent wheelchair user to be elected to the Scottish parliament. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Scotland will benefit from its newly diverse parliament
The Guardian
Holyrood feels rejuvenated with MSPs that more accurately reflect the country’s multiculturalism There have been times in the past year when Scotland has felt like a dark and retrogressive place. Alex Salmond’s acquittal on sexual assault charges ...
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GETTY IMAGES Women MSPs marked the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which allowed women to vote for the first time.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Scottish election 2021: Will there be a record number of female MSPs?
BBC
Scottish voters go to the polls to elect a new crop of MSPs on 6 May, with parties under more pressure than ever to correct the imbalances in the gender and diversity of their representatives. Could we be on course for the largest contingent of...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
SNP to launch project aiming to get more Scots women into politics
The National
THE SNP will tomorrow unveil a new project aimed at combating the gender balance in Scotland’s politics. Writing exclusively in The National, the party’s national women's convenor, Rhiannon Spear, says: “Women make up over half of the population in...
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Scottish Parliament campaign launched to get more women to becomes MSPs
The Scotsman
A major Holyrood drive has been unveiled aimed at getting more women to become MSPs after numbers stalled in recent years. More than 400 women from across Scotland are to be invited to a day at the Scottish Parliament aimed at generating interest...
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Monday, May 08, 2017
Scotland's 3 major political leaders are women
Scotland may be tiny, but the ambitions of its female leaders certainly are not. Teen Vogue spoke to the three parties ahead of the June 8 election in the United Kingdom to find out about female representation in Scotland, and what’s been done to...
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Friday, November 25, 2016
Interviews
Sylvia Walby
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Sadiq Khan puts women to the fore in latest appointments to mayoral team
London’s new Labour mayor Sadiq Khan has announced key members of the team he hopes will help him deliver his manifesto pledges as he embarks on his first term as mayor. It is a line-up which, as promised, gives senior roles to women, confirms his...
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Friday, April 01, 2016
Interviews
Stuart Donaldson
Scotland entered into a political union with England in 1707, and as a country within the United Kingdom (UK), it has since then sent representatives to the UK Parliament at Westminster in London. Currently, 59 Members of Parliament (MPs) from...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Multimedia
Support from MPs for the 50:50 Parliament campaign
In the United Kingdom, of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, men hold 459 (71%) and women only 191 (29%). There have only ever been 450 women MPs. The vision and the goal of the 50:50 Parliament campaign is a parliament where men and women...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Interviews
Seema Malhotra
Uday Nagaraju interviewed Seema Malhotra, Labour and Co-Operative Member of Parliament for Feltham and Heston (UK), Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Founder and President of the Fabian Women's Network, Former Shadow Home Office Minister for...
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Friday, December 06, 2013
Sexist MPs aren't macho. They're pathetic dweebs
The MPs making obscene gestures at Sarah Champion and other women in the Commons are the backbench nonentities. There is a scene in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights when porn star Rollergirl (played by Heather Graham) is at college, and a male...
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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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