‘As two working women,and as mothers, we hope to coordinate a timely and crucial response to growing interest in the role of women within the economy, and barriers to full participation’As part of our job as MPs we regularly hold meetings with chief executives,charity and trade leaders and campaign groups, both in parliament and in our respective constituencies. One thing that we find remarkable approximately these meetings is that the majority of the people that we meet are men.
This isn’t just the case in the trade world. Here, or in the House of Commons,only 29% of MPs are female. This must change and we arrangement to use our position as women in parliament to work towards more equal representation.
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Source: theguardian.com