The Times reflects on David Cameron's lack of women on the front bench. David Cameron has lined up an all-male team to attack Labour over the economy, raising concerns within his own ranks that he has downgraded his pledge to promote women in the Conservative Party. A high-profile female parliamentary candidate said: “The fact that there are not more women in the inner circle inevitably...

For today’s women “motherhood, not sexism, is the issue”. So says The Economist (“We Did It”, 30 December 2009), noting that “women who prosper in high-pressure companies in their 20s drop out in dramatic numbers in their 30s and then find it almost impossible to regain earlier momentum”. Could the same be true in politics? Nearly 80%

Further to my earlier post about how Cameron is looking to promote women, Recess Monkey has a post about how women only occupy the lower branches of Conservative front bench politics, which you can read here Let's hope that when Miller and Greening get promoted they get some substantial jobs ...

The End Violence Against Women (EVAW) report is a comprehensive study on the massive prevalence of violence against women and girls, calling on Michael Gove to make a priority of educating against sexism in schools. Great stuff. Simple common sense, even; unless you are generally in favour of violence against women. But developments like these are a starting horn for discussion derailers.

Lucy Powell: Tonight I'm speaking at An evening of Women's Politics in Manchester. The event aims to encourage and support more women to get directly involved in politics as candidates, governors or activists

Why didn't Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination? This is from a recent poll of US women voters: Despite all the talk about sexism in the presidential campaign, the majority of women voters laid the blame for Hillary's loss squarely...

David Cameron is preparing to promote a new generation of women to key positions in his shadow cabinet in a reshuffle this Autumn.

It's been a truly disastrous week for women at Westminster, writes Madeleine Bunting. How did things go so badly wrong? It's been a week in which women have dominated politics; their pictures have been on the front of every paper and TV bulletin. But no one is celebrating: this has been a terrible week for women in politics. Twelve years ago the Labour victory of 1997 brought a new gener...

Over on Telegraph Blogs today, Jenny McCartney is attacking a report on ‘Benevolent Sexism’, which basically entails very minor acts of goodwill that could still be construed as sexist. McCartney’s problem is specifically centred around the following examples: [C]alling women “girls” but not men “boys”; believing that women should be cherished and protecte...

Leading female MPs are failing to inspire a "lost generation" of young women to become interested in politics, a damning report has revealed. Girls and young women feel disenchanted with and disengaged from politics, the major study found.