As research shows that high-earning women mean happier families and Lloyds pledges to raise its female executive ratio to 40 per cent, Rosamund Urwin asks: are we at the tipping point?

1.34: ‘Today parliament is not properly representative of the country’

Networking, party support and updated working practices are the key to addressing Westminster’s gender imbalance, says Róisín Watson

As the controversy over Lord Rennard continued to rage, TV personalities Anne Robinson and Joan Bakewell join Stella Creasy MP and Kirsty Wark to discuss sexual harassment and sexual inequality. Stella Creasy starts 4.20 mins in, responding on behalf of younger women.

Sexism there is in British politics, but it’s by and large less overt (than the US)

“It’s hard to credit in 2014, but it’s true: there’s still a major British workplace, one of the country’s best-known brands, where women have no right to take maternity leave.

Women in the UK were first able to vote in Parliamentary elections in the 1918 General Election. Separate legislation was passed to allow women to stand as candidates, also for the first time in 1918. Seventeen women stood at that election and one, Countess Constance Markievicz, was successful in St Patrick’s Division of Dublin. Ironically, as a Sinn Fein MP …

Now it’s time for feminism to tackle class as well as culture . Guardian 17 Nov 2013 Melissa Benn

One of the biggest barriers stopping more women entering the House is the division of labour in the household. Get more men changing nappies and you’ll have more women changing policies

Dave’s Problem with women. The Economist 12 Oct 2013. Bagehot

All three party leaders have a lot to say about how the female profile must be raised. Then do nothing.