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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]
All-women shortlists are a method of affirmative action which has been used by the Labour Party to increase the representation of women in Parliament. As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [ 22 ]
Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. British politician (born 1983) The Right Honourable Bridget Phillipson MP Official portrait, 2024 Secretary of State for Education Incumbent Assumed office 5 July 2024 Prime Minister Keir Starmer Preceded by Gillian Keegan Minister for Women and Equalities Incumbent Assumed office 8 July ...
Pages in category "Books about labour" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Full Employment in a Free Society; G. A General Theory of ...
The Women's International Council of Socialist and Labour Organizations was a body established within the Second International to enable special conferences of the socialist and labour movements to be held. [1] It was founded at the First International Conference of Socialist Women in Stuttgart, 1907.
Labor feminism was a women's movement in the United States that emerged in the 1920s, focused on gaining rights in the workplace and unions. Labor feminists advocated for protectionist legislation and special benefits for women, a variant of social feminism .
Blair Babes or Blair's Babes was a term sometimes used to refer to the 101 female Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Labour Party elected to the House of Commons in Labour's landslide 1997 general election victory, after images of the new prime minister, Tony Blair, with 96 [1] of them on the steps of Church House in Westminster were widely publicised. [2]