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The Tories in the European Parliament yesterday abstained from voting to reduce the gender pay gap across Europe.
The gender pay gap report was written by German centre-right MEP Edit Bauer. Calling for a review and analysis of all member states’ existing legislation on the application of equal pay and establishing best practice on the issue, [...]
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Paul Flynn, MP for Newport West, has recently had part of his House of Commons parliamentary allowance taken away because his blog, allegedly paid for out of the public purse, ws deemed “rude” as well as disseminating political propaganda.
You can read the full story on the link below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7736245.stm
I think this an unnecessarily harsh punishment by [...]
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BREAKING NEWS.
Gary Titley, Labour MEP for the North West Region and current Leader of the European Labour Party (EPLP), is to stand down as EPLP Leader on 14 January next year.
This means that the EPLP will have to elect a new leader to take Labour into the European Elections in June 2009.
We could have [...]
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I saw this disturbing story…
http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/11/stephen-green-makes-late-bid-for-bad.html
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Last year Ryanair were reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority for using sexually provocative photos of women dressed up as school girls along with the headline “Hottest Back to School Fares”.
Last night I received an email from Ryanair advertising their latest sale and 2009 calendar of scantily clad staff who “bare all”.
Do you think this [...]
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Congratulations to Harriet Harman on the Speakers’ Conference on women and members of ethnic minority groups in Parliament. If Parliament is ever going to be a fully representative body for all sections of our society, women, black people and people with disabilities all have to be there.
The current situation where less than 20 percent of [...]
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This week I was invited to give a speech on Women in Business at this year’s GCC Euro Expo in London. I thought you might be interested to see what I said:
First may I thank the organisers for inviting me to speak at such an exciting and important event as this Gulf Cooperation Council European [...]
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Den Dover, a North West MEP and former Tory Chief Whip in the European Parliament, has had the Conservative Whip removed. You may remember he was accused of employing his wife and daughter via a family-owned company in explicit defiance of Parliament regulations. The official inquiry undertaken by the European Parliament has now found Den [...]
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You might be interested in this article on the BBC News website about closing the gender gap. The Nordic countries come out well in terms of equality, as does New Zealand.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7722389.stm
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