Why have so many leading jobs never been held by a woman?
Ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday, I thought it would be worth listing the posts which have never been held by a woman.
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David Cameron and Ed Miliband clash with Jeremy Paxman in the first public contest leading up to the general election, and take a grilling from the public on their records and future promises.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirms at least three UK citizens were among the 150 people thought to have died when a passenger plane crashed in the Alps.
Senator Ted Cruz is the first Republican to declare he is running for the US presidency in 2016 – and the Tea Party favourite is as well known for his colourful speeches as for his right-wing views.
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister and architect of the tiny city-state’s rapid rise from British military outpost to global trade centre, dies aged 91.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg rules out forming a “rag tag mob” coalition but leaves the door open to a looser pact with the Scottish National Party and Ukip.
George Osborne refuses to rule out a deal with Ukip after the general election in the event of a hung parliament, as Nigel Farage reveals a pact with the Conservatives could be possible.
Ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday, I thought it would be worth listing the posts which have never been held by a woman.
Addressing Ukip’s spring conference in Margate, party leader Nigel Farage says the UK must adopt the Australian-style points system to decide who should be able to settle in the country.
While Labour is tight lipped and ultra-orthodox at present, it is entirely possible to imagine the common ground of a Labour-SNP-Green coalition, or a “supply and confidence” type arrangement.
David Cameron says his government has done more than any other to crack down on tax dodgers. But where’s the proof?
With Vladimir Putin meeting Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande in Moscow to discuss the Ukraine conflict, what is driving the Russian president, what is he seeking, and will he get it?
Ed Miliband says that electoral changes mean one million people, many of them students, have fallen off the voters’ register in the past year.
Copies of the controversial “survivors’ edition” of Charlie Hebdo are thought to have sold out in much of the UK despite concerns over community tensions and protests in Pakistan.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage faces a new opponent in Thanet South where the comedian Al Murray says he will stand in the general election in the guise of his comic character The Pub Landlord.
Although she hails from the centre right, Angela Merkel’s political instincts are closer to Ed Miliband’s than to David Cameron’s.