Talat Yaqoob is Chair and Co-Founder of Women 5050: I awoke one morning this week and immediately went to Twitter to see what was happening and who was chatting to Women 5050. Most of the time I see exchanges between our page and tweeters supporting one another or asking for more information. But this morning …
Majority of MSPs now support Women 5050 13th November 2015 – Noon For the first time in the history of fighting for fair representation of women in Scotland a majority of MSPs support legislated candidate quotas. After a surge in signs ups after the Women 5050 conference yesterday, now 68 MSPs (53% of current MSPs) …
Our conference, Who Runs The World, on the 12th of November 2015, was a phenomenal success. With over 130 participants, 23 speakers including the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, academics, journalists and politicians from across the political spectrum. If you were there and were scribbling notes, or you didn’t get a chance to join us and …
Nadine Aisha Jassat is a writer and feminist activist who works with young people to tackle gender based violence: I was speaking to a group of young people recently about sexism in the media, and I raised with them the issue of racism, also. To help the young people in my class empathise and understand why …
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