{"id":27315,"date":"2021-02-09T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=27315"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:43:13","slug":"less-women-appointed-to-public-bodies-in-wales-new-data-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/less-women-appointed-to-public-bodies-in-wales-new-data-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer women appointed to public bodies in Wales, new data reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Welsh gender equality charity has warned that action must be taken to include more women in public life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chwarae Teg’s annual ‘State of the Nation’ report shows that 20% fewer women were appointed to public bodies over the past year. Only 43% of appointees in 2020 were female, compared to 64% in 2019. The report also shows that fewer than 5% of appointed chairs were women, far lower than the 56% recorded last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also highlights the gender split in Wales across all forms of government. Whilst the Senedd is currently only one female MS away from achieving an equal gender split, fewer than three in every ten local councillors and only a quarter of council leaders across Wales are women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wales is also the only nation of the UK never to have had a female Prime Minister or First Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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