Parliamentary Affairs articles from January 1996

Parliamentary Affairs archives from January 1996

Sex, gender, and British politics.(Women in Politics)
January 1, 1996... When British feminists struggled for the suffrage at the end of the last century they thought that the women's vote would bring their concerns to the political agenda, would elect more women representatives and change the nature of politics....

Women and the Labour Party.(Women in Politics)
January 1, 1996... Since 1987, a quiet revolution has been taking place in the Labour Party. It is inspired by the need for Labour to win more women's votes, the need to regenerate the party and to improve women's representation In public Iife. The...

Women and politics in Scotland.(Women in Politics)
January 1, 1996... THE ROLE of women in Scottish politics has been a relatively neglected area of academic enquiry. The 1980s and 1990s have, however, witnessed a growing Interest, which has in turn led to a number of research projects and publications. As a...

Women and politics in Northern Ireland.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... DESPITE periodic efforts to forge a common front, the women's movement in Northern Ireland has foundered over the mutually reinforcing cleavages of nationality and religion that structure its political alignments.(1) Yet the cessation of...

The politics of the women's movement.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... WOMEN have had a significant role to play in British politics throughout this century, but that significance has fluctuated. Whilst there have been times when women,s rights, opportunities and status have been politically salient, there have...

Quotas for women: fair representation?(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... On Tuesday 25 July 1995 Tony Blair announced that after the general election the Labour Party would abandon Its policy of insisting that some constituencies choose their candidates from all-women shortIists. He claimed in a Press Association...

Women politicians: transforming Westminster?(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... The last decade has experienced significant breakthroughs for women in British politics. There have been remarkable gains in local government. Women are about one quarter of all local councillors.[1] In London one of the best areas for...

Women MPs and the media: representing the body politic.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... REPRESENTATION has two central dimensions. political speaking for others, and mediated presentation through word and image.(1) Recent feminist theory has explored the gendered nature of democracy and the public sphere,(2) and the gendered...

Women and change in the Labour Party, 1979-1995.
January 1, 1996... IN 1979 gender could hardly be said to be an issue in the British Labour Party. Yet by 1995 the party had a Shadow Minister for Women, a detailed strategy for developing and implementing policy aimed specifically at women, and most...

Public management change and sex equality within the state.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... PUBLIC management approaches in the UK have been revolutionised in the last fifteen years. At the central level, widespread privatization and contracting out of governmental functions has followed on the heels of the Next Steps programme,...

The privatisation of sex equality policy.
January 1, 1996... A WEEK may be a long time in party politics; in equality politics, twenty years is no time at all. In 1975, the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act and the coming into effect of the provisions of the Equal Pay Act marked the effective...

Legislative constructions of motherhood.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... Over the past two decades feminist writers have increasingly turned their attention towards the interaction of feminism, politics and the law in order to Investigate the treatment that women receive at the hands of the legal system. This...

The politics of childcare policy.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... Despite constantly renewed expectations that something was at last about to happen, childcare policy during John Major's premiership has continued on much the same minimalist lines as under Mrs Thatcher, and indeed as under earlier Labour...

Feminist intervention and local domestic violence policy.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... Domestic violence here means mental, physical, sexual, emotional or economic abuse of one partner by another. It is largely perpetrated by men over women. We examine the ways in which feminists have operated to influence the uptake of policy...

The Zero Tolerance campaign: setting the agenda.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... THE Zero Tolerance campaign, a groundbreaking public awareness Initiative to challenge social attitudes and myths surrounding violence against women and children, originated with Edinburgh District Council's women's committee in 1992. A...

Women, the European Union and Britain.(Women in politics)
January 1, 1996... MOST literature on the sex equality policies of the European Community (EC)(1) is critical on two main grounds. First, the Commission has little to do with substantive equality but is restricted to providing a legal and regulatory framework...