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The Centre for Women & Democracy is an independent, non-partisan organization working to increase the representation of women at all levels of public life.

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New 2Leadership & Gender in Local Government in England: Part 2
has now been published. In it, we examine which local councils are led by women, and find out whether or not the situation has improved since our last report on the 2006/7 year. Are there now more women leaders or fewer? Are there more women leaders in the north or the south? Which local authority has women as leader, deputy leader and chief executive, and in how many are all these posts held by men? You can find out all this and more either by downloading the Executive Summary, or by ordering the full report from our Publications page.

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Women come together at CFWD to make a difference

Some images from our first year's activity ...

Since our launch in March 2007, we have run events and conferences, published reports, produced our booklet 'Women Make a Difference!' (distributed to schools across the North of England), and worked with other organisations including the Fawcett Society, the Electoral Reform Society and Unlock Democracy on projects such as '2008 Year of Women & the Vote'. We will shortly be publishing a report and resource pack on the 2008 Local Elections, and developing our 'Democracy Debate' project further and we will also be continuing to work collectively with others to increase and improve both the representation of women, and women's ability to access to the democratic and decision-making processes.

Dame Jane Roberts spoke at our conference in Leeds
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CFWD's Director Nan Sloane ...
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... with the Fawcett Society's zohra moosa

At our launch event in 2007 ...
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Ruth Redfern (Yorkshire Forward), Jill Liddington (author, 'Rebel Girls') and Hilary Armstrong MP

Publised to mark International Women's Day 2008 ..
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... with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd

Small Arrow Pointing Right 17 Want to know where the women are?
Do you want to know where the UK stands in the international 'league table' of women's representation, or how many women MPs there have been in your region and who they were? Or are you interested in how well (or badly) women are represented in other areas of public life, or in the professions? Our Factsheets will tell you all this and more, and we add new ones every week. If there's an area you'd like us to produce a Factsheet for, you can let us know by emailing us.



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