Guest post from mrs TV (tactical voting) on all women shortlists. First off I need to say two things: 1. I am swedish. 2. I am not into politics. So if I’m not into politics why did I choose to post this? Well it is simple. I have something to say about the debate on forcing women on people when they do not want them there. Or maybe I’ve just had enough of this debate pulling Jeff away...

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 ...

I went to Westminster today to check out the Tamil protest - where they'd taken over the entire area to entirely stop any traffic. A policeman said they had tried to move them several times but the number were too many. I suspect the high numbers of women with kids also made it very difficult for them to take any strong stance. More pictures below the fold.

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

Following its revelatory front page story this morning about the Conservative Party not having enough women in front line positions - conveniently ignoring the fact that its new President is one Emma Pidding - I can exclusively reveal that the editor of The Times has ordered his own lobby team to get their own act in order. "Our Westminster lobby journalists represent the unacceptable face of male...

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.

As a (relatively) young woman in politics, and one very aware of the gender dimension of politics – having both studied gender politics and also convening the SNP Women’s Forum for a time – I am disappointed that women are under-represented in this vital area of public life. There was some debate in a number of blogs in recent months over the issue of all women shortlists in the ...

Church Street Councillor Aziz Toki has called on Westminster City Council to provide more women-only swimming sessions, including female life-guards, to meet the needs of local women residents. Speaking at the Council meeting on 29th April, Councillor Toki said: "I submitted a petition last year to increase swimming sessions by one hour for women at the Seymour Leisure Centre. I have since attempt...

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...

In the Guardian's A woman's place series, Lesley Abdela laments the paucity of women in parliament. Eighty years on, the UK parliament rates 69th in the world league of women in parliament, one ignoble place below Cambodia. Women's representation in politics is not linked to whether a country is rich or poor. The US has 16.8%