Yesterday, the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of having at least 50% women on all public boards (88 in favour, 28 against). Public bodies need to work towards meeting that target by 2022. At Women 50:50 we have been campaigning for this, along with women’s representation in politics, since 2014. Here is a summary of …
Rachel is 18, is taking a year out before university to potentially study politics, she’s using this time to get lots of experience and is working with Women 5050 to support this. Rachel is our new volunteer blog editor and will be coordinating our ask for supporters, campaigners and equalities champions to write for us. …
Talat Yaqoob is Chair and Co-founder of Women 5050. Over the course of the weekend, the Women 5050 campaign was, as ever, given advice from a number of men who in their own words were, “doing us a favour”. The favour they were doing us was a helpful reminder of how women should …
By Talat Yaqoob, Chair and Co-Founder of Women 5050 Today, the Scottish Parliament debated the report by the Commission on Parliamentary Reform (read here). This reform process was critical for women, not only to ensure that we push for gender balance, but to make way for more inclusive practice throughout our parliament. After the revelation …
Women 5050, the campaign advocating for 50% representation of women in councils and in the Scottish Parliament, has analysed the candidate lists of all wards in the 32 councils for the upcoming local elections on May 4th and found a significant under-representation of women on the ballot paper. Key findings: – Women make up only …
Karen Kelly is a journalist from East Kilbride. She recently volunteered with Pravah ICS in India, and worked on projects that focused on improving the lives of women and young people in the rural village of Sadri in Rajasthan. The first thing that struck me about the village in which I was living was …
In this week’s blog Jenny Gilruth, SNP MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes tells us about why she supports all women shortlists and Women 5050: ‘My name’s Jenny and I’m an MSP because of positive discrimination.’ Quite the confession. But true, nonetheless. Would I have stood for election had it not been for an all …
Anna Cowan, is 17 and lives in Glasgow. She along with 3 of her friends, founded and run the campaign; Girls Against I believe all powerful political movements and campaigns begin from a sense of anger or alienation; the feeling that you’re being overlooked and dismissed – perhaps due to ethnicity, sexuality, or age. For us, …
Girls Against – a rally call against sexual harassment Read More »
Women 5050 has written to all the main political parties and asked what specific activities they are doing to tackle the significant under-representation of women in local government. Currently, only 25% of Councillors on Scotland are women. Local government is responsible for schooling, housing, local environment, hospitals and clinics, transport and an endless list of …
Terri Smith is a Member of The Scottish Youth Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith and is Chair of SYP. She tells us about the her experience as an MSYP and why the answer to progressiveness is in our young people: A woman is the First Minister of Scotland, the Prime Minister of the United …
The Political Glass Ceiling – cracked not shattered. Read More »
