.@shaistaAziz highlights the importance of knowing what you believe and knowing what you think. If you can crack that, you can crack writing to be heard. #FWNwriting
"There's a reason why journalism is such an elite, white privileged profession... They are not reflective of the wider population" - @shaistaAziz on the issue of fair pay in journalism and the problem of people being asked to work for free #FWNwriting
Professor Neena Modi is up first. She's setting the scene first with some keys fact: black women are 5 times more likely to die during pregnancy than white women #FWNLab20
NM: During the beginning of COVID-19 between March to April, 56% of pregnant women who tested positive with the virus were BAME #FWNLab20
👩Men still hold more than 66% of the seats in the UK parliament despite a record number of women elected in December.
👩🏿Only 34% of councillors are women.
👵Only 24.3 per cent of all national parliamentarians were women as of February 2019, a slow increase from 11.3 per cent in 1995.
👩🏾Rwanda has the highest number of women parliamentarians worldwide, where, women have won 61.3 per cent of seats in the lower house.
👩🏻Globally, there are 27 States in which women account for less than 10 per cent of parliamentarians in single or lower houses, as of February 2019, including 3 chambers with no women at all.
Our exec member, the inspirational Cllr @shaistaAziz has just begun a new role as Head of Media and Comms at @SolaceWomensAid and has been appointed as a commissioner for the Oriel College Independent Inquiry into the Rhodes Statue.
Our exec member, the awesome Cllr @abigailmashall is doing wonderful work in leading FWN North, for all our sisters across the NW, NE, Yorks & Humber. Abi is a huge encouragement to everyone on our EC and we are so grateful to have her expertise on our committee.
Our exec member, the exceptional Cllr @KindySandhu won her council seat from a Tory and has not stopped grafting since. An incredible local representative, Kindy has a doctorate in the impact of austerity on BAME women and is a specialist in an intersectional approach to the GND.
Thank you so much to all those who joined us for our AGM and festivities last night.
We had a wonderful evening with friends old and new.
We couldn’t be more grateful for the support of @unisontweets for their constant support, and for hosting us in their beautiful building. 🙌
Thank you also to our fantastic speakers - to @RachelReevesMP, who reminded us just how special the places that women occupy in politics are, how hard our sisters fought to get us here and how much more there is to be done.
Thank you to Julian from @unisontweets - who told us about how Unison has implemented progressive working structures and encourages women to step forward in all arenas of the work they do 👏