The number of women leading or co-leading political ... 29 MSPs would represent a similar proportion of Members of the Scottish Parliament, People with disabilities face social, political and ...

The Scottish Parliament has worked on initiatives to support women in politics. These include a leadership programme developed in partnership with the Young Women’s Movement called Young Women ...

Following the UK Supreme Court ruling that the definition of “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biology, and interim ...

The women's rights activist who flashed in Scottish Parliament in protest over the ... as he believed it to be 'transphobic'. The staff member is said to have tried to dissuade the audience ...

Trans women are to be banned from using the female toilets at the Scottish Parliament. Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone has written to all parliamentary staff to say Holyrood’s toilets will be ...

What attracted you to the field? When I first became a member of the European Parliament, I was one of the few young female members of European Parliament (MEPs) that worked on tech issues.

An historic number of women were elected as Members of Parliament at last year's general election. Some 263 MPs are now women - 40.5% of all MPs - as of last July's polling day. It is an increase ...

The Scottish Parliament has apologised to women who were asked to leave a Holyrood committee ... Chamber that the action taken this morning was not prompted by any of the members of the Committee.

who says the “timely response” will “protect women’s legal right to access single-sex spaces”. She said: “If the Scottish Parliament can respond to the Supreme Court judgement so ...

Trans women are to be banned from female toilets in the Scottish Parliament following last month's landmark Supreme Court ruling that biological men cannot change their legal sex. Alison Johnstone ...