Lucy Powell Quotes

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

People are getting tired of the "good old boy" style of politics. Women [candidates] are the alternative.

I am looking foward to the day when we have more women in the U. S. Senate that there were victims of Harvey Weistein's sexual harassment.

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

Politics has to be a place where women want to go.

I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.

I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

The logical sequence of suffrage is office-holding. Female suffrage will never reach its full fruition until fully one-half of all public offices, legislative, judicial and executive, local and national, are filled by women. Is the public mind ready for this risky innovation?

There are more women in the Iranian parliament than in the United States senate.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.