Harriet Harman has been given an official warning for exaggerating the pay gap between men and women. She claimed that women were paid 23% less, but Sir Michael Scholar, the statistics watchdog, says 12.8% would be a more accurate figure. Harriet Harman's figure includes part time workers and more of them are women. On top of race, disability and gender, (public bodies) will have to promote e...

Why is it that the Punditiers who were keen to kill Gordon are mainly women- Toynbee, Miles, Ashley? Sorry, but it can’t be that Blair was a sex object. Browns a fat father figure and strong women hate their dads but love a lothario. Sure, they pretend to know what cabinet ministers intend to do it could be that women have been gossiping to women. Could Kelly be the source? Alternatively, it...

One in four of all police officers are women, according to official figures which disclose the changing face of British policing.

A group of women are holding a protest tomorrow morning in London against what they call an abuse of women by police spies. Really, I don’t. Women in the UK should not have to worry about being sexually abused by policemen. It is as simple as that. In response, we call for women to come

Women winning medals. Geoff Earl, President of Triathlon Scotland, has this to say about coverage of women in sport: Kira Cochrane asks (Three cheers, G2, July 12): "Will this Olympics change the way we see women?" Unless the media change their attitude and start reporting women's sport on a regular basis and not just during the Olympics, the answer will be a resounding no. While the Guardian...

Depressing statistics marked the start of the More Women More Power campaign, launched in the House of Commons today. Vera Baird, the solicitor general, told the event organised by One World Action, that on average women earn 17.4% less than men doing the same job. Before 1997, just 9% of MPs were women and today that figure is still only 19.4%. Even with Labour's all-women shortlists, Baird ...

Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts. Labour women are coming together at a crucial time to discuss the fact that women are being hit twice as hard as men by the tax and welfare changes being brought in by this Government. Changes to women’s pensi...

Women will be able to find out if their new boyfriends are wife beaters under a Sarah's Lawstyle "right to know" under proposals from police chiefs.

This is interesting: Harriet Harman, the women’s minister, said: “There is a major fear about women being targeted by their employers during the downturn. This is unlawful.” Another senior minister said women could be set back for “a generation”. The latest official employment statistics show that the number of women in full-time work fell by 53,000 in