Well, the election is finally over with, and the big losers again are women.
Despite all of the political parties making an effort to increase of number of women MPs in the House of Commons and despite Fawcett and other women equality groups pressuring the parties, there is still no real gain in terms of numbers.
Figures produced by the Centre for Women and Democracy show that, the percentage of women MPs has risen by just 2 per cent from 19.5 per cent to 21.5 per cent – this represents an increase of about a dozen women in the House of Commons.
The number of Labour women has fallen from 94 to below 80 about 30 per cent of Labour MPs..
The number of Conservative women has risen from 18 to about 48 about 16 per cent of Conservative MPs.
The number of Liberal Democrat women has fallen from nine to seven about 13 per cent of Liberal Democrat MPs
These figures are provisional in that they do not include the 23 seats still to declare at the time of writing; however, statistically these seats can make little difference to the outcome
Fawcett and other pro-women organisations must now take the lead and demand that a fixed percentage of all committees, parties and even cabinet are held by women. We can no longer sit back and allow this aberration to continue to blight women’s lives with male dominated crass, unconsidered views that affect women all over the country.
Full transcript can be read on Fawcett Devon’s website.
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