{"id":1605,"date":"2006-09-28T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2006-09-28T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T14:48:56","slug":"the-british-labour-party-women-and-then-the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"The British Labour Party, women and then the good news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Bennett in the <i>Guardian<\/I> today has <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,,1882580,00.html\">a very good piece<\/a> exploring the relationship between Tony Blair&#8217;s conference mother-in-law jokes (so c. 1950), and the fact that no woman is being even mentioned as a possible candidate to stand against Gordon Brown. (Despite the fact that all of the research shows that electorates warm more easily to women candidates.)<\/p>\n<p>But if that&#8217;s a bit depressing, there&#8217;s also a profile of <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,,1882614,00.html\"> S\u00c3\u00a9gol\u00c3\u00a8ne Royal<\/a>, who is a very serious candidate for the French presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see &#8230; Germany has a female chancellor, France could have a female president &#8230; Britain has a &#8230; Foreign Secretary I suppose would be the highest Cabinet-ranked woman. Not what you&#8217;d call spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>And rounding out the good news, in China, it has been decided to officially recognise <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,25689-2378256,00.html\">female descendants of Confucius<\/a>. Not perhaps likely to have much practical effect, but an important symbol of giving importance to females, and perhaps girl-children in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Bennett in the Guardian today has a very good piece exploring the relationship between Tony Blair&#8217;s conference mother-in-law jokes (so c. 1950), and the fact that no woman is being even mentioned as a possible candidate to stand against Gordon Brown. (Despite the fact that all of the research shows that electorates warm more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}