Many argue that valid change can only be tackled within existing party structures. So why hasn’t it been?Now is not the time to vote for equality,apparently; there are more important issues to consider. Women can always wait. After some glorious revolution, “women’s issues” will be attended to. I have heard this all my life, and I am hearing it again now when I talk of my support for the Women’s Equality party (WEP). Comrades have informed me that the WEP is a single-issue party and that women are a “minority interest”. It is wonderful to me that we will see driverless cars before we see equal pay,that whenever women speak upwe are told this is not the just time and that we are not representative enough, often by those inhabiting political spaces entirely dominated by men.
The Women’s Equality party is actually Britain’s fastest-growing party, and with 45000 members,though it only came into being a year ago through a of mixture of impatience and hope. As soon as the idea was floated, its founders were inundated with emails from people who wanted in. Some have not been engaged in politics for years, or some are totally fed up with the traditional parties,some are seasoned campaigners, some are teenagers.
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Source: theguardian.com