This International Women’s Day, Parliament Street’s Head of Campaigns, Elizabeth Anderson shares her thoughts on what more progress must be made for us to achieve full equality! 2018 celebrates the centenary of the first women gaining the vote in this country. Hard won, this – and the other changes of the 20th century – completely changed the rules for women like […]
by Kate Baldwin Entitlement is a challenge for us all. We all have our expectations for having things in a certain way that we’ve grown accustomed. And we don’t like when those things are taken away. The latest explosion of entitled angry white men has been around the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the next Dr Who. A role, which […]
Christianah Babajide is a second-year law student at The City Law School. She runs a law blog called Lawcommonroom. You can connect with her via LinkedIn. She attended Atkin Chambers Women in Law event, and gives us her views below: The Bar Council research shows that 57% of mothers at the Bar are primary carers, compared with only 4% of fathers […]
Christianah Babajide is a second-year law student at The City Law School. She runs a law blog called Lawcommonroom. You can connect with her via LinkedIn. She attended our Women of Influence Conference, and gives us her views below: On the 21st of January 2017, the same day as the woman’s march, I attended the Women of Influence Conference […]
Before tomorrow’s Women of Influence Conference at the Army and Navy Club, Parliament Street Chairman, Clare Ambrosino discusses the ideas that inspired her to create the Women of Influence initiative . Why women need to join together to ensure that their voice is heard in the boardroom With so many powerful women in key roles, May and Merkel, Sandberg and Mayer […]
Parliament Street, one of the UK’s leading think tanks, is to host a major Women of Influence Conference in London. The event, which will take place on Saturday January 21st at the prestigious Army and Navy Club, will include panel discussions and speeches from leading women in law, new media, politics and the technology industry. Announcing the conference, Georgia Toffolo, […]
By Kate Baldwin Drawing more investment in technology than that of any other European country in 2016, there is no question that the UK is a global force in technology. Yet, women remain sorely underrepresented in the industry. Just under one quarter of the tech industry workforce are women, compared to 47% of workers as a whole – and one […]
by Georgia Toffolo It is no secret that the majority of resolutions, made with the best of intentions on January 1st , end up pretty much forgotten by the month’s end. No wonder, when you have to deal with the horror that is January, giving up the things you love the most is enough to drive anyone insane. So perhaps, […]
By Charlotte Chase; Bow Group Member and Co-Founder of Generation Conservative Recent coverage of the Conservative Party Conference reminded me of the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. Both the rhetoric surrounding this country’s first woman Prime Minister and its second (both conservative it is importantly noted) have many similarities. Whilst they were equally credited with emitting a strong, capable […]
