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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

2 Sep, 2010

95% of respondents said that the recent increase in women MPs of 2.5% is unacceptable, with 45% supporting comulsory quotas...

24 Aug, 2010

Only a quarter of Australian MPs elected at the recent general election are women, a fall of almost 3% from...

4 Aug, 2010

Fawcett responds to publication of letter from Theresa May MP to George Osborne about the budget. ...

1 Aug, 2010

Fawcett are seeking a judicial review of the government's recent budget ...

12 Jul, 2010

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

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....