The Roman Catholic ban on women entering the priesthood will become illegal under Harriet Harman's controversial Equality Bill, according to Christian charity, CARE.

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...

Harriet Harman has pledged to do more to protect women from domestic violence.

The Labour party deputy leader Harriet Harman has complained of "double standards" among the public towards prostitution. Some 65% of women thought selling sex was unacceptable. The Minister for Women and Equality said "cultural attitudes" need to be challenged. However, 100% of the women who voluntary make a living from prostitution disagree with Harriet .

Harriet Harman's equality bill aims to outlaw discrimination, but it's not such an easy concept to nail down Rarely in the field of government legislation has a proposal been so exhaustively trailed, paraded and pre-announced as the equality bill which is published today. It was an important part of Harriet Harman's successful 1997 campaign for the deputy leadership (pdf), and it is...

This is the full text of the speech today to the Labour Party Conference by Harriet Harman MP, Minister for Women: Since last Conference, we have had twelve months of determined progress towards equality. It's been a year of promises made and promises kept. Twelve months ago, I pledged to you that we would press forward on our progressive agenda to help make Britain a fairer and more equal pl...

Harriet Harman reappointed Trevor Phillips the government's equality champion despite knowing the public spending watchdog would heavily criticise his style of management only days later.

Update: On Thursday, June 26 the Minister for Women and Equality, the Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP, made a statement to the House of Commons, repeated in the House of Lords by Baroness Andrews, setting out the main themes of the Equality Bill which will be introduced in Parliament in the next session. On the same day the Government Equalities Office published Framework for a Fairer Future - the Equ...

Harriet Harman belongs to a particular breed of Labour women who claim to have the best interests of other women at heart. In reality their concern is rooted in a blinkered ideology says Liz Hunt.

I really wish Harriet Harman wouldn't presume she speaks for all of female kind, while making sweeping generalisations. Giving women the opportunely to get into politics is one thing, it's another thing entirely to stack the cards so that regardless of ability women gain. How does anyone respect that? And why would women want that? Earning things in life is so much more rewarding, to know it was y...