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Harriet Harman’s book is an exhaustive account of the women’s movement in parliament since 1982, writes Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin When Harriet Harman caused controversy by bringing her baby to a parliamentary vote soon after being elected, she received a call from the...

It is 37 years since Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first female prime minister. This is literally a lifetime ago for around half the United Kingdom population, so it is depressing that Alison McGovern opened the seminar following the International Women’s Day...

Yesterday John Woodcock and Alison McGovern signed the Labour Women's Network #PowerPledge on behalf of Progress. We are very proud to be among the first signatories and we will be framing it for the office, but it will not be sitting on a shelf gathering dust. This...

To say I was appalled to read Austin Mitchell's opinion piece in the Mail on Sunday this weekend would be an understatement. Disgust was mingled with disappointment that – even after so much progress increasing the representation of women in our party – there are...