IWD2016 Working for women Articles

Meetings: a time where important decisions are made about the Labour party and campaigning – or wasted time where someone grumbles about the rulebook and new members are left dazed and confused? All too often Labour party meetings fit into the latter description, and...

Women are the backbone of our communities. However, young women are all too often a rare sight at constituency Labour party meetings. We are an even rarer sight in a council chamber, and positively endangered as council leaders, mayors and the party leadership. Yet we...

Sitting in the Queen Elizabeth Centre on a Saturday September morning I watched as the Labour party slammed on the brakes and hit reverse – and I had a back row seat. The outright rejection of so many highly capable women on the leadership ballot felt almost personal....