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...

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...

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

Women's Vote Watch is a project of the Center for American Women and Politics and the Communications Consortium Media Center. It was created to monitor and analyses trends relating to women and voting in the 2008 American presidential elections. The website provides free access to press releases, opinion poll data and full text briefing and research papers. Topics covered by these include: th...

A high representation of women AMs in the Welsh assembly has an effect on the way politics is conducted, research shows.

Poor old Dave - he got his nose all bent out of shape at the Times suggesting there aren't enough women in his team yesterday, so he's been given his own space in the Times comment section to put his point of view. Yesterday, The Times accused my party of failing to do enough to promote women in politics. Today, I want to set a few things straight. See - told ya. It is crucial that the p...

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...

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 ...

As a feminist, I’m a big supporter of electing more women as MPs, because I recognise that sexism and discrimination is one of the major reasons why many women simply aren’t given a chance. But hat tip to J Arthur MacNumpty for this story which highlights what is so wrong with Labour (and many other political parties,