The campaign is inundated with tweets on a daily basis, the vast majority are tweets of support. People telling us they like the campaign, asking how they can get involved and occasionally and tweet from a councillor or MSPs signing up to the campaign. The majority of MSPs are behind us. Over half of the […]

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

Anni Donaldson is a, journalist, blogger, violence against women researcher and oral historian. Anni won the award for Best Article in the first Write to End VAW Awards in 2013.   The Women 5050 campaign stands full-square on the shoulders of the women who pushed the equality agenda in the lead up to Scottish devolution and beyond.

The Women 5050 campaign has gone from strength to strength over the last year. With our conference coming up and already selling out, we have amassed a huge amount of interest across Scotland. But between the excitement, there is also some hard lobbying that needs to happen. We need to make sure the ability to

A special blog from Jersusalem Barnabas from Shakti Women’s Aid: A lot has changed since 19th century yet not significantly in terms of women’s voice and concerns being heard.  Also in terms of recognition of women’s talents and skills ambitions and contributions. While democracy (we are told), was ‘born in Europe’ (Greece), Women in Europe

Miriam Brett, feminist activist and policy analyst at The Common Weal writes for Women 5050: Our government seeks to be a genuinely representative body of our wider society, reflecting our diversity, mirroring our hopes. In Scotland, we have witnessed immense progress; with the introduction of all women shortlists and a gender balanced cabinet, and our

Gaby is a feminist, a campaigner and activist for the Scottish Green Party and on issues such as rent controls, women’s representation and European Politics. You can follow her on Twitter at @VelvetVert: When I tell people I’m a feminist and that I believe in positive discrimination, the response I usually get is: “at the