"I always read Linda’s blog with a mixture of interest and trepidation!’ - Nick Clegg "Linda Jack, the eminense grise of so many Lib Dem party conferences is an excellent blogger. Her posts benefit from being close to the action but not too close; she lives and breathes politics and it shows" - Politics.co.uk
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Diversity in the Party? I wish........
I am just back from an excellent media training event in Cambridge run by Vanessa McPake. It was informative, challenging and great fun, however, I couldn't help noticing that I was the only woman. So, here we are again; an event for PPC's dominated by white men. Actually this is not a criticism of the men who attended, rather an observation about an issue we really have to tackle. As a woman I like to blame the men, but I know we women have to take some of the responsibility too. At Autumn conference I was appalled that I was the first woman speaker after 14 men on the Meeting the Challenge debate. Now, maybe we will never achieve true proportionality in the party for a variety of reasons, but the current situation is totally indefensible.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment