Sentences with phrase «more women in parliament»

Although there are now more women in parliament than ever, there are currently only 67 female Conservatives MPs.

There is no doubt that there should be more women in Parliament, at the highest level of business, in academia and in the professions, and the paucity of women across all workplaces is disturbing.

A higher proportion of women in Cabinet has also been found to increase women's conventional political participation — and this effect is stronger than the effect of more women in Parliament.

«Today with more women in Parliament having babies you get to share experiences,» says Harman, explaining that she wasn't hiding anything under her coat, other than a little extra baby - weight.

Sadly Pakistan (the largest Muslim country) has more women in parliament and senate than USA.

Not exact matches

But our parliament is 24 % women, and there are plenty of women in larger cities who are professionals, although in the rural areas, there is more of a traditionalist approach.

He also claims the Lib Dems have distributed leaflets to women in the constituency alleging he is parliament's «second more eurosceptic MP».

Better representation for women and BAME people in Parliament is not only important for their sakes, but more diverse perspectives make for better scrutiny which, in turn, yields better legislation.

There is one woman who stands out more than any other in my eyes: the woman who put the SNP on the map; the woman who worked relentlessly for Scotland and its people; and the woman who reconvened the Scottish parliament in 1999.

Congratulating Theresa May on becoming Prime Minister, Huw Evans, Director General of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «The appointment of our second woman Prime Minister is a positive day in British public life which will hopefully encourage many more women to stand for election to Parliament.

The Labour deputy leader will use a roundtable event in parliament to call for more steps to even up the gender gap between men and women on our television screens.

As the «women problem» perennially plagues David Cameron, whether from people defending the PM or slamming him for seemingly inching away from filling his cabinet with more women, the business secretary acknowledged: «Women are underrepresented in both sides of the coalition, and in Parliament, which should be representative of the country... We're not doing enough.&rwomen problem» perennially plagues David Cameron, whether from people defending the PM or slamming him for seemingly inching away from filling his cabinet with more women, the business secretary acknowledged: «Women are underrepresented in both sides of the coalition, and in Parliament, which should be representative of the country... We're not doing enough.&rwomen, the business secretary acknowledged: «Women are underrepresented in both sides of the coalition, and in Parliament, which should be representative of the country... We're not doing enough.&rWomen are underrepresented in both sides of the coalition, and in Parliament, which should be representative of the country... We're not doing enough.»

Cooper also admitted that increasing representation in Parliament is a «long journey» and championed Labour's use of a women's shortlist to promote more women into Parliament in 1997.

I would estimate that there are not more than a half a dozen people in the country outside Parliament who would have the AWS / notAWS distinction in their heads if offered a list of say 20 1997 Labour women and asked to sort 10 in each category.

Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.

This is important because the role of a select committee chair is a high profile, influential one; an increase in the number of female chairs has a direct impact on the visibility of women in Parliament, and may encourage more women to play a role in the committee system and politics itself.

I made this point repeatedly in the leadership election and made clear that changing this situation and getting more Conservative women into Parliament was top of my agenda.

On a more lighthearted note, Rudd spoke of her early days in the Commons, recalling when Newsnight rather cruelly stood her down as a guest for a discussion about women in parliament.

In my opinion the best way of getting more women into parliament is by implementing proportional representation http://www.tinyurl.com/Proportional-Rep The way we vote can and does influence the number of women elected into parliament.

Last week, Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of Labour, spoke of the difficulties in getting more women from her own party into parliament through all - women shortlists.

It is now the case that of all the parties represented in our Westminster parliament, more are led by women than men.

The new House of Commons will be more diverse than ever before, with more women and more minority - ethnic MPs than in any previous parliament.

And while there will be a record number of women MPs in the new Commons, the total of 139 — which includes 48 Tories, almost a more significant breakthrough — is still less than a quarter of the 649 MPs elected on Thursday and only 11 more than in the last parliament.

According to research conducted by the Commons Library, more than 70 % of the cuts implemented in the current Parliament have come at the expense of women.

other factors were more women mps, they tend to stay in parliament less time.

Jennifer Hudson, co-author of the UCL / Birkbeck Parliamentary Candidates UK Project, said: «The parties» efforts in increasing the number of women candidates selected has paid off — there are now more women MPs in parliament than ever before.