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All-women shortlists (AWS) is an affirmative action practice intended to increase the proportion of female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom, allowing only women to stand in particular constituencies for a particular political party. [1] Labour abandoned the shortlist for general election purposes in March 2022. [2]
[7] The first longlist for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, of 16 titles, was announced on 15 February 2024. [8] The Guardian noted that the subject matter of the longlisted books included "Capitalism, artificial intelligence, Renaissance history and motherhood". [9] The shortlist was announced on 27 March 2024 and the winner on 13 June 2024. [7]
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
The Booker Prize Shortlist was announced at Somerset House on Monday (16 September), with religion, climate change, and race among the key themes tackled by the selected titles.. Judges had the ...
Last year, Barbara Kingsolver became the first person to win the award twice with her novel Demon Copperhead. One of 2024’s shortlisted authors, Kate Grenville, previously won the Prize (then ...
Phillips was selected from an all-women shortlist [25] to contest Birmingham Yardley in June 2013, which was then represented by John Hemming of the Liberal Democrats. [26] At the 2015 general election, Phillips was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley, winning with 41.5% of the vote and a majority of 6,595 votes.
The Movement, by Clara Bingham In 1963, an American woman would not open her own credit card, play varsity sports in college, prosecute her rapists, or get a prescription for birth control.
In 2004, Blackman-Woods was selected as the Labour candidate for the City of Durham constituency through an All-Women Shortlist. [2] In her previous work she had been known by her maiden name, Roberta Woods, but added her husband's surname, Blackman, after selection to avoid confusion with Liberal Democrat candidate Carol Woods.