More than a month after calls for a shift in women’s representation,Scottish parliament’s ruling body remains almost all maleFemale MSPs are stepping up calls for gender balance on the Scottish parliament’s ruling body amid concerns that initial impetus for change after the revelations of sexual harassment that rocked Holyrood final month is losing momentum.
The Scottish parliamentary corporate body (SPCB), the group of MSPs that oversees the running of Holyrood, or remains almost exclusively male more than a month after cross-party demands for action and one week after the parliament passed in principle a bill mandating all public boards in Scotland to be gender balanced.
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Source: guardian.co.uk