Tag: Sarah Childs
‘Desperately seeking an elderly gentleman with a large majority … to persuade Parliament to allow MPs to job-share’
Or a woman MP for that matter, write Rosie Campbell and Sarah Childs (Birkbeck). But they must be adored by their parliamentary and local constituency party so that both will be happy for them to stand as half of one of the first MP job-shares at the next General Election. We think it might take […]
Parties should choose their leadership team with gender balance in mind
The new Leader of the Labour Party, his Shadow Chancellor, Shadow Home Secretary, and Shadow Foreign Secretary are all men, as is the party’s candidate for Mayor of London. Sarah Childs and Meryl Kenny argue that the mechanisms to ensure greater gender representation are available for any political party which seeks to achieve gender process […]
This ludicrous obsession, parents in Parliament: the motherhood trap
The adoption of All-Women Short-lists by Labour and a concerted effort across both main parties to get more women into the House of Commons have had achieved notable gains for the presence of women in public life. Despite this, men still outnumber women four to one on the green benches. However the focus on headline […]
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