… into politics because it demands a lot of constituency work, which is difficult for women who bear most childcare … culture and candidate selection processes. NWCI says that care responsibilities and male-dominated structures of power … with their under-representation. Examples of its work include a national workshop for women standing for …
… members, to find out their experiences and problems at work. Forty per cent of the union’s 30,000 members are women, … highly qualified, they also tend to be worse paid. Their work tends not to achieve the same prominence, and they are … as equal pay, work-life balance and childcare/dependent care. The council monitors the progress of legislation, …