| Face to Face VideosIn addition to our regular Women's Parliamentary Radio audio interviews, we will also be broadcasting some video interviews with women MPs of all parties. Our interviews and reports...  | 2008: Women & the Vote
It is now 90 years since the Representation of the People Act gave women over 30 the right to vote. Women's Parliamentary Radio in partnership with the Electoral Reform Society, the Centre for Women & Democracy, Engender, the Fawcett Society, the Hansard Society has launched a new campaign: ‘2008: Women & the Vote’.
At the launch of the campaign by the Electoral Reform Society in Westminster the leading suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Millicent Fawcett were remembered too. Deborah McGurran has this report. |  | Lorely Burt MP (LD) Solihull
A rare moment of breaking through the glass ceiling has occurred in
Westminster as three women have taken over the role as their Party Chair, Chairman, or even Chairwomen. Whatever title they have chosen to call themselves there's no doubt that Harriet Harman MP, the Chair of the Labour Party, Caroline Spelman MP, the Chairman of the Conservative Party, and Lorely Burt, the Chair of the Liberal Democrat Party are in the spotlight. WP Radio journalist Anne Garvey spoke to Lorely Burt, about the changes she would like to make on behalf of women. |  | Dawn Butler MP (Lab) Brent South
Vice-Chair of the Labour Party (Youth).
Dawn Butler, MP was asked by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown to second the Queen's Speech. She told parliamentarians:”Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and Members of Parliament are from a place not yet discovered”. However she is doing all she can to promote Westminster to young people, ethnic minorities and women. Boni Sones talked to her. |  | Jo Swinson MP (LD) East Dunbartonshire
Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.
Jo Swinson, MP is the youngest member of Parliament. At 27 she is determined to make her mark on Westminster by championing issues such as the pay gap, flexible working and the need for more women to come forward to stand as MPs for her Party. She talked to Deborah McGurran. |  | Theresa May MP (Con) Maidenhead
Shadow Leader of the House and Shadow Minister for Women.
Theresa May, MP has a list of changes she wants to see introduced to improve women's lives in the UK and internationally. She has been an enthusiastic advocate of equality in all her roles in Westminster and has been at the forefront of the Conservative's “Women2Win” campaign. She talked to BBC journalist Deborah McGurran about them. |
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