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https://www.engender.org.uk/content/publications/A-Supplementary-Gender-Edit-of-Party-Manifestos-2021.pdf Date of Publication: April 2021 holyrood2021 representation politics A supplementary gender edit of parties running in 2021

Men are overrepresented in all of Scotland’s democratic bodies. There are multiple barriers to women – particularly women of colour, disabled women and LGBTI+ women – accessing politics.

self-censoring the content they post and even leaving social media altogether in an attempt to limit the abuse they face. Female politicians thus lose the platforms that should allow them to have their voices heard and amplified, causing

group. In my search of the content of Scottish Parliamentary business during its 5 th session, I used search terms of 'Black women', 'Asian women', 'women of colour', 'BME women' and 'Black and

of the proposed changes, the content of the bill was locked down relatively early on in the year. Despite valiant analytical efforts by the Women’s Budget Group and others , nothing but the broadest outline of the women’s equality and

also looked at the gender content of the Scottish Government’s white paper and Scottish Labour’s so-called red paper , and produced briefing papers based on the thematic content of our policy report. Today, we are publishing the

self-censoring the content they post and even leaving social media altogether in an attempt to limit the abuse they face. Female politicians thus lose the platforms that should allow them to have their voices heard and amplified, causing

group. In my search of the content of Scottish Parliamentary business during its 5 th session, I used search terms of 'Black women', 'Asian women', 'women of colour', 'BME women' and 'Black and

of the proposed changes, the content of the bill was locked down relatively early on in the year. Despite valiant analytical efforts by the Women’s Budget Group and others , nothing but the broadest outline of the women’s equality and

also looked at the gender content of the Scottish Government’s white paper and Scottish Labour’s so-called red paper , and produced briefing papers based on the thematic content of our policy report. Today, we are publishing the