Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman calls for shadow cabinet rules to be changed so half of posts go to women.

Harriet Harman, Labour's acting leader, has called for half of the party's shadow cabinet to be made up of women.

Harriet Harman has called for half of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet to be women. She’s right. There’s no good reason why Labour’s shadow cabinet should be male dominated.

Harriet Harman is irresistibly attracted to the absurd. This morning, she has decreed that the shadow cabinet be split 50:50 between men and women. Naturally, she would pervert Labour party rules to ensure the quota was a statutory requirement. To be honest, I’ve lost track of Harman’s myriad ruses for increasing the female presence in high profile politics; and to be equally honest I&...

So the women in the Cabinet are only ‘window dressing‘, according to Caroline Flint. They are there to make Labour look like it is interested in equal opportunities for women, rather than the Party actually being inclusive. Thank fuck for that, since I’ve always worried that some of the women of the cabinet would be

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...

Harriet Harman has attacked big companies for airbrushing images of women to hide the signs of ageing and insisted that older women can be attractive.

Labour's Deputy leader Harriet Harman MP today hosted the first ever women's summit at Labour Party conference. The event was the biggest political meeting of women in any political party in recent times, bringing together Labour women activists, new members and elected representatives from across the UK. Party membership has risen by 35,000, 40% of whom are women. Women now form the hig...

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.

Tomorrow's Economist has an interesting article about the "lady in red" Harriet Harman: PRIVILEGE is no bar to the commanding heights of the Labour Party. Neither are women always squashed under its industrial machismo. There is even a place for lifelong Londoners in a movement whose heartlands are northern and Celtic. So much is obvious from a glance at the cabinet with its expensively schoo...