{"id":31694,"date":"2023-03-07T17:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=31694"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:46:35","slug":"you-want-more-women-tell-me-how-youre-going-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/you-want-more-women-tell-me-how-youre-going-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You want more women? Tell me how you&#8217;re going to do it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Charity Chwarae Teg has partnered with female politicians in the Senedd for an event to encourage young women into politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty girls aged 16-22 from across Wales have taken part in this year&#8217;s Lead&#8217;Her&#8217;ship programme.  During the day they each shadow a Welsh MS, listen to a panel discussion and visit First Minister\u2019s Questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomos Evans, the charity&#8217;s Policy and Public Affairs partner, says the conference hopes to help young women to see themselves as people who can make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t solve all the issues to make sure we have a genuinely representative democracy, but we can do our little bit to really encourage young women to see politics as something for them and that there is a place for them&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Image-banner-min-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31716\" width=\"423\" height=\"562\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/03\/Image-banner-min-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31716\" width=\"423\" height=\"562\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is the fifth year of the Lead&#8217;Her&#8217;ship programme and he says they&#8217;ve seen a real impact on the girls they work with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In years gone by there have been women that we have brought to the Senedd and they&#8217;ve started their own campaigns and they&#8217;ve been in touch with their local representatives. It really is to try to tackle those areas where you don&#8217;t have the connections to make your mark&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative MS Natasha Asghar has sponsored the event this year, she is the first Welsh MS to be a woman of colour. Asghar worries that attempts to boost the diversity of the Welsh Government &#8211; such as plans to increase Senedd membership &#8211; will have little tangible effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Over 100 million pounds is going to be spent on having more politicians which is fine. But the problem I have is that in the aim of saying we want to have more members because of diversity, no political party has been able to decipher how they&#8217;re going to actually achieve that. You want more women? Great, fantastic. 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