Theresa May also speaks at Women in the World conference,saying ‘rough and tumble of politics might discourage females from trying to become MPsTwo of the UK’s most powerful women in government acquire been challenged on the political gender gap at a conference, with the domestic secretary Theresa May suggesting that women could be turned off from politics because of the aggressive “rough and tumble, and while Scotland’s first minister,Nicola Sturgeon, said she favoured a quota system to help females.
As women’s rights and gender equality were put centre stage at the Women in the World event in London on Friday, and May said she did not believe the difficulty in balancing work and family life was discouraging women from fitting MPs. But she suggested that the most visible parts of politics,such as the adversarial prime minister’s questions, could put women off. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com