10 years since the Equality Act was introduced, parties need to come clean on diversity It has been 10 years since the Equality Act (2010) received Royal Assent, providing Britain with a legal framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all. Sadly, not all of... Posted 08 Apr 2020
Euro elections show how Westminster’s first past the post holds back women Elections to the European Parliament take place today across the UK. As we’ve talked about in a previous blog post, the UK’s 73 MEPs will be elected using proportional representation (PR). In Great Britain, the... Posted 23 May 2019
Time is running out in this Centenary year – why are the government waiting to tackle the ‘political gender gap’? In November, the Electoral Reform Society helped coordinate an unprecedented coalition of campaigners and politicians in calling for government action on the ‘political gender gap’. Marking the centenary of women’s right to stand for Parliament,... Posted 14 Dec 2018
Women in Westminster One of the chief reasons why people are increasingly alienated from our politics is the fact that Westminster looks so little like the people it is there to represent. At the moment, barely one in... Posted 13 Mar 2015