Contact Info
Centre for Women & Democracy
2 Blenheim Terrace
Leeds
LS2 9JG
Tel: 0113 234 6500
E-mail: info@cfwd.org.uk
The Centre for Women and Democracy
22% (143) of the UK's MPs are women.
18% (4) of Cabinet Ministers are women.
30% of local councillors are women.
News & Events
> CFWD News
95% of respondents said that the recent increase in women MPs of 2.5% is unacceptable, with 45% supporting comulsory quotas...
Only a quarter of Australian MPs elected at the recent general election are women, a fall of almost 3% from...
> Fawcett News
Fawcett responds to publication of letter from Theresa May MP to George Osborne about the budget. ...
Fawcett are seeking a judicial review of the government's recent budget ...
Gender impact assesment of Osborne's emergency budget ...
Recent Reports
Quote of the Week
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
~ Mary Wollestonecraft, Feminist, Philosopher, Writer. 1759 -1797
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Interesting Women
Baroness Valerie Amos, recently appointed the United Nations' Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, was the first black woman to sit in the British Cabinet. She was born in 1954 in Guyana....