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Lib Dem Women Fund

Lib Dem Women Fund More than 100 years after women first gained the right to vote and to stand for election, only a third of local councillors are female and the proportion of women MPs is even…

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Leadership session is now on YouTube

On the 23rd of July we held a Q&A session with Ed Davey and Layla Moran, hosted by Emma Kennedy, and it was a big success.

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LDW Support

Women account for over half of the UK population, and yet they make up just 22% of our parliament. The gender balance in UK Parliament and in our own party is far from representative and we hope you…

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LDW sessions at Autumn Conference 2020

Liberal Democrat conference has gone online and we are looking forward to seeing you there! Here are some of our highlights to look out for. 

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LDW Fringe 2017

LDW is delighted to have our newly elected women MPs at our fringe meeting on Monday, 18 September. Chaired by Baroness Lorely Burt, this promises to be a cracker of a meeting. So, come along, listen…

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IWD 2018

The Fawcett Society are also working with with indie band Bon Iver on their campaign 2 A Billion to tackle violence against women and girls.

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Govt single sex spaces bill - our response

Liberal Democrat Women strongly reject the apparent proposals which would restrict the ability of trans women to use women’s single-sex spaces.

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Electing LDW councillors

Recently, the Fawcett Society and the Institute for Public Policy Research looked at women both as elected representatives and as candidates. The results were quite stark.

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Disability and women

Only 19% of women with learning disabilities have had a recent cervical screening, compared to 73% of the general population.

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Data collection improvement

A recent publication by the European Institute for Gender Equality has highlighted that the paucity of data collection in some areas is leading to worse outcomes for people in violent intimate…

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