A new report from the Fawcett Society found 69% of women MPs and 49% of all MPs have witnessed sexist behaviour in parliament in the last five years, and calls for parliament to be modernised.
Fawcett’s survey and in-depth interviews with MPs identified “push and pull factors” that impact their decisions to stay in or leave
, including the all-encompassing workload, lack of support systems, online abuse and an “exclusionary culture” within the House of Commons.Is Rishi Sunak a feminist? Where our new PM stands on the issues that mean the most to women in the UK “Democracies around the world are under pressure so we all have to ensure our democratic institutions are as robust as they can be,” said Maria Miller MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Parliament.
“Diverse parliaments are shown time and time again to be key to a strong democracy. Yet, Fawcett’s research shows that while important changes have been made in the House of Commons, progress towards a more diverse House of Commons is ‘far too slow’.
In a bid to combat these issues, the Fawcett Society is calling for parliament to be modernised, stating that “the systems, workload, culture and abuse that currently run through our democratic institutions are substantial barriers to women’s participation in
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