This period saw women's participation in politics slowly growing at both the national and the local level. Barriers were clearly breaking down for women, but only a tiny fraction of them was able to benefit from this. Everywhere the story was the same. Women were getting increasingly involved...
Female members of parliamentThe line graph illustrates the proportion of women who worked in parliament in 5 different countries over a 12 year-period.Overall, it is clear that the figure for ladies of UK in most years was lowest. However, the throughout the period shown, the percentage of ...
Also considered the de facto leader of the European Union (EU), Angela Merkel has played an important role in strengthening international trade agreements. In 2020, she was named in Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People. 46 Nancy Astor (Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton (...
Introduction Thousands of women have signed up with 50:50 Parliament to register their interest in standing as an MP (Member of Parliament) in the UK. What's inspiring them to get involved? Sam and Georgina discuss the engagement of women in politics and teach you related vocabulary. This we...
OK. We’ll see if you’re correct at the end of the programme. There are a number of projects in the UK at the moment trying to get more women interested instanding forparliament. One of these is the campaign ‘sign-up-to-stand’...
First woman stands proud at Parliament Women voting rights were, moreover, something too late. Vote from Streets to Ballots But she and her daughter helped put on an all female "mock parliament" in which women, using the same argument used by the Canadian government to deny women voting righ...
She was involved in political activism throughout her life and served in the Italian parliament between 1983 to 1987. Animated by a profound sense of justice, she engaged with passion in various humanitarian issues, such as the lowering of the price of bread, support for Palestinian children, ...
There was, of course, another attempt to remove Mrs Pankhurst’s statue in 2018. Parliament commissioned a very detailed report – https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-committees/works-of-art/Reports-and-associated-documents/Donald-Insall-Planning-Report-on-Memorial-to-Emmeline-...
During a Commons debate, Christopher Leslie, a Cabinet Office minister, said government advertising would help ensure that membership of public bodies "increasingly reflects the regional breadth of all parts of the UK," and that they were not dominated by any corner of the nation. "In the past...
HARARE - Some pregnant women from Highfield in Harare have petitioned Parliament over what they say is the denial to access maternal health care services at their local poly-clinics. “We are kindly petitioning Parliament to launch an investigation on th