Women in Parliament meeting

Brilliant well attended meeting yesterday in parliament Portculus House Atlee room. Shows that parliament is an Open house,  it is a people's parliament not an exclusive club. We have a constitutional right to get our voices heard and help fashion policies for a better society, a society where all citizens have living dignity, the vulnerable cared for & supported to best possible health. I identified with what Maria had said that she had worked before becoming an MP where women formed most of workplace. I shared that has a nurse and particularly a midwife our professions had good mix of gender or mostly women.. we have excellent female surgeons, female obs & gynae among men, women has Directors of Midwifery services.  Even my first ever job was to work with a female architect in Skipton who qualified in the 1930s so to think of her pioneering achievement..   I brought forward that in my first day of training we were taught to be politically aware to protect our patients; to protect our profession and to protect our NHS....how our NHS now needs intensified protection. I brought to the panel the need to cultivate more decision making among our youth in schools, local councils and parliament - After all its their future ..We all felt we need better representation of the public when selecting candidates to stand for MPs in their constituency.  This is just a brief blogpost for now ..I need to read through the handout reports. Here are links 

Fawcett Society

APPG on Women in Parliament

Global Institute for Women's Leadership