

LabourWomensNetwork
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Labour Women's Network trains Labour women for public office & to lead within their local parties & communities. We campaign for women’s equality within Labour.















I was anorexic from when I was 14. During my #IWD speech, I read passages about that experience, which I wrote 20 years ago, whilst recovering from my last major surgery. Sex, relationships & disability remain a taboo, with many disabled women facing the same anguish today.



Today during the International Women’s Day parliamentary debate @jessphillips will read the names of women killed since IWD 2025 where the suspect is male. We sent her the ‘final’ version of the list last night. This morning, we’ve had to add 2 women. There is never a final list

'How can we be assured that women are safe while they stay at those hotels' Labour MP Jen Craft spoke to #BBCBreakfast after the boss of Travelodge agreed to meet more than 100 MPs next week after a woman was sexually assaulted in her hotel bed by a man who had been given a key card and her room number by staff bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…









NEW: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she had PTSD ‘after being raped after attending an event’ ‘I waited 1,088 days to go to court’ She tells the Chamber in the courts debate: ‘Experiences like mine feel like they are being weaponised in this debate’



For decades, women with severe period pain and heavy bleeding have been dismissed by doctors. But for millions, it’s conditions like endometriosis or fibroids going undiagnosed. We must start taking women’s pain seriously. My piece in @DailyMirror 👇🏾 mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…





