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Fawcett comments on cabinet reshuffle and appointment of Alan Sugar to Government
Fawcett comments on cabinet reshuffle and appointment of Alan Sugar to Government
Fawcett Society Press Release
For immediate release
5nd June 2009
Fawcett comments on cabinet reshuffle and appointment of Alan Sugar to Government
Following the loss of four of the most senior women in British politics this week, Fawcett is watching closely to ensure that women are represented in Brown’s cabinet reshuffle.
Commenting on the re-shuffle, Fawcett’s Director Dr Katherine Rake OBE said:
"Having lost two senior women from Cabinet, eyes are on Mr Brown today to ensure that he does not backslide on women's representation. We await with anticipation the full results of the re-shuffle to find out what the balance will look like for Brown.
In the meantime, his appointment of Sir Alan Sugar as the new ‘enterprise tsar’ gives grave cause for concern. Sugar has made outspoken comments which have set the women's rights agenda back. He claims that maternity laws give women ‘too much’ entitlement and wants to break with equality practice by asking women whether they are planning to get married and have children at interview. Finding ways of effectively supporting women's enterprise should be a key part of the UK's exit from recession and there are questions as to whether Sugar is the man to do that. "
Notes to Editors:
1. The Fawcett Society is the UK’s leading campaigning organisation for women’s rights. For more information on Fawcett, please visit http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk
2. More information on women’s representation in politics can be found at http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=15
3. This week Fawcett has published Lifts and Ladders: resolving ethnic minority women's exclusion from power, a report which brings together all of Fawcett’s previous research on women and power and prepares the ground for a fresh analysis on why ethnic minority women are excluded from power in the UK. The report can be downloaded from http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=959
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