Labour Womens Network Articles

EU commissioner Viviane Reding has made waves in the news this week, proposing a 40 per cent quota of women on boards for listed companies. Whilst the directive contains enough holes that it won’t have a huge impact in the UK, it has meant another week of business...

These are very difficult times for councils. We’re in the middle of the biggest funding cut since the second world war – figures out this week show that areas with high levels of deprivation, like Islington, are seeing our budgets slashed by almost 10 times the amount...

Margaret Bondfield was an extraordinary woman. Born into a radical working-class family in 1873, she dedicated her life to trade unionism and the advancement of working women and men in our national politics. And on this very day in 1929, she was appointed to the...

With Cameron in need of improving his perception among the female electorate, the chance to talk about the positive effects of women in business offered just such an opportunity. Unfortunately, what has dominated the media reaction to Cameron’s comments about...