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Women in politics

August 2024

  • Susan Ryan

    Labor’s first female frontbencher and feminist trailblazer immortalised in Canberra statue

    Susan Ryan found it ‘intolerable’ that women were not treated equally, introducing world-leading legislation on sexual harassment

July 2024

  • Susanna Rustin

    Dramatic deeds are remembered, but too many feminists of the past are forgotten

    Susanna Rustin
  • A man and a woman turn to enter a door

    ‘She wants to get on with her life’: Victoria Starmer intends to do things differently

June 2024

  • Rachel Reeves in a cobalt blue jacket

    ‘No jobs women can’t do’: Rachel Reeves on idols, fiscal prudence and broken promises

  • Top-down view of a person holding their phone over a lit-up keyboard with two screens in front of them and junk food on the desk

    Female UK election candidates report increased abuse

  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves during a Labour general election campaign event at Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust last month

    Top businesswomen back Rachel Reeves as first female chancellor

  • Margaret Beckett in her parliamentary office

    Goodbye to all that
    The woman who led Labour: Margaret Beckett on fights, friends and ferocious change in 50 years of politics

May 2024

  • The East India Club in St James's Square, London: a large cream-painted historic building with arched windows on the ground floor and a covered doorway, balconies on the first floor and white-painted stonework. A similar building but with pillars adjoins it at the corner of the grand square.

    London’s remaining men-only gentlemen’s clubs discuss female membership

    Club secretaries at some institutions are understood to be consulting lawyers after vote at Garrick

April 2024

  • From left to right: Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mexico's opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, Mariana Mortágua, leader of Bloco de Esquerda, Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Claudia Sheinbaum.

    2024: Year of elections
    More people will vote in 2024 than ever before … but where are the female candidates?

  • Catherine Bennett

    Secret’s out, Harold Wilson had another affair. There’s nothing sweet about that, boys

    Catherine Bennett

March 2024

  • Rishi Sunak and Tory MP Jack Lopresti listen to information on engine development during a visit to the Rolls-Royce manufacturing facility in Bristol.

    Tories urged to return ‘further £5m donation made by Frank Hester’

    Scottish Tory leader says all of Hester’s donations should be reviewed after racist and misogynistic comments
  • Frank Hester speaking on a stage with notes in one hand and a remote control in the other.

    Gove: Hester remarks not extremist and warrant ‘Christian forgiveness’

    Senior Tory says donor’s ‘horrific’ comment that Diane Abbott should be shot unlikely to be investigated by new taskforce

    • Diane Abbott accuses Tories of aiming to play ‘race card’ before election

    • Sunak’s record on appointing female peers from party worst since Major, analysis finds

    • Opinion
      Half of the world goes to the polls in 2024. Let’s ensure women’s voices are heard

      Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

January 2024

  • Miatta Fahnbulleh

    Parliament after next general election will be most diverse ever, analysis shows

    Record number of female and ethnic minority MPs expected to sit in Commons according to study of candidate selections

December 2023

  • Johnson at lectern in March 2020

    Women’s voices barely heard in Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry told

    Inquiry hears of ‘macho and egotistical’ climate in which women spoke for as little as 10 minutes in five hours of key meetings

November 2023

  • Women standing in the lower house of Victorian parliament

    ‘Reflects the community’: Victoria achieves gender parity among MPs for the first time

    Premier Jacinta Allan says the affect of female MPs’ voices can be seen throughout their work in parliament
  • Rishi Sunak chairs a meeting with his new cabinet

    Men hold top four roles in UK government for first time since 2010

    Downing Street says it is not focused on ‘tick-box diversity’ and women get senior jobs elsewhere
  • Emma Beddington

    Furious about the petty macho point-scoring of the Covid-era government? May I suggest this shouty Belgian feminist video

    Emma Beddington
    Helen MacNamara’s quietly devastating evidence to the Covid inquiry reminded me how desperately we need more women channelling their anger into politics, says Emma Beddington
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