The party proclaimed the need for more stringent measures in support of Britain in World War I. Indeed, it gave out white feathers to all conscientious objectors. It changed the name of its paper from "The Suffragette" to "Britannia": a paper which concentrated on enlisting women for the war effort. It claimed that this was far more important than the fight for women's suffrage, although it also had policies on equality for women and the abolition of trade unions.
In 1919, Christabel was chosen as the Coalition's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Westminster Abbey, but in the event no by-election was held until 1921, when the Conservative Party chose their own candidate to represent the Coalition. The Women's Party wound itself up in June 1919.
Though not opposed to the women\u2019s quota Bill granting 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament and state legislatures, leaders of Muslim organisations and parties have said that the Bill should have had quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Muslims and that the ...
STAVANGER, Norway -- The political careers of two of Norway's most powerful women are under threat after it was revealed that their husbands were trading in stocks behind their backs ... The cases of the two women on opposite sides of the political divide are separate but their defense is more or less the same.
Imran Khan’s PTI lost another wicket, this time a former member of the National Assembly from Punjab and party’s women wing president Munazza Hassan who joined Istehkham-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) and made the decision public at a joint presser with IPP patron and former confidant of the PTI chairman, Jahangir KhanTareen, on Friday.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced that unmarried women above 21 years of age will be included under the Ladli Behna Yojana and will receive Rs.1,250 monthly aid, as per the scheme ... The CM added that under the scheme, which benefits around 1.32 crore women, will be gradually increased to Rs.3,000 per month.
Chindambaram urged people of the southern state to take note of this alliance between the conservative parties that want to preserve the old order ... The SC, ST, OBC, Minorities and women of Karnataka must take note of this alliance between conservative, regressive and misogynist parties that want to preserve the old order.".
... on the lips in the aftermath of Spain winning its first Women’s World Cup. A month on from the incident, a breakthrough in the dispute now appears to have been reached after the two parties, along with the government’s High Council of Sport (CSD), came to a series of agreements.
...Gandhi are heading to the state to address a meeting of party workers in Jaipur on Saturday ... The BJP is also witnessing an internal churn in the state, with senior party leader Uma Bharti ramping up her demand for the OBC quota in the just-passed women\u2019s reservation Bill.
Leonardo DiCaprio is said to be getting serious with 25-year-old model Vittoria Ceretti ... They were seen in a video exclusively obtained by Page Six kissing and partying together at the electrifying Hï Ibiza club and a few weeks later headed to California ... Mel B reveals fitness secrets for women in 'later years' ... London party last week ... .
list 2 of 4India to raise legal marriage age for women, activists sceptical ...Women at the entrance to a nightclub in Beijing during the Qixi Festival in 2015 [Fred Dufour/AFP] ‘I choose not to get married’ ... Traditional communities fragmented as tens of millions of men and women migrated to the expanding cities for work.
To make matters worse the identitarian consensus then insists with equal vigour that only the approved speakers from each marginal group have the right to lay down the law. British Asians and WestAfricans who support the Conservative party or women who oppose trans rights are the wrong type of minority voice and must be silenced.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves one-third of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, ending a 27-year impasse over the bill amid a lack of consensus among political parties.