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| Representation of women in crisis, says Ed Miliband | Representation of women in crisis, says Ed Miliband |
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| A step towards tackling the "crisis in representation" for women will be taken if the Bank of England changes tack and puts an historic woman on one of Britain's banknotes, Ed Miliband said on Thursday. | A step towards tackling the "crisis in representation" for women will be taken if the Bank of England changes tack and puts an historic woman on one of Britain's banknotes, Ed Miliband said on Thursday. |
| The Labour leader challenged the outgoing bank governor Sir Mervyn King, who said that Jane Austen was "quietly waiting in the wings" to appear on the new £10 note, by saying that a woman should appear immediately. | The Labour leader challenged the outgoing bank governor Sir Mervyn King, who said that Jane Austen was "quietly waiting in the wings" to appear on the new £10 note, by saying that a woman should appear immediately. |
| King prompted a storm of protests when he said that the Queen would be the only woman to appear on banknotes when Winston Churchill replaces the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry on the £5 note in 2015. | King prompted a storm of protests when he said that the Queen would be the only woman to appear on banknotes when Winston Churchill replaces the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry on the £5 note in 2015. |
| In a speech to Women in Advertising and Communications London, Miliband said: "When Winston Churchill replaces Elizabeth Fry on the £5 note, everyone who will appear on notes issued by the Bank of England will be a man. What kind of signal does that send? I read this week that Jane Austen is 'quietly waiting in the wings' to appear on a banknote one day. But 100 years on from the great struggle to give women the right to vote, women shouldn't be waiting quietly in the wings for anything. This is an important symbol of the kind of country we are. Why don't we have one of our great women scientists like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and a suffragette like Emmeline Pankhurst on our banknotes?" | In a speech to Women in Advertising and Communications London, Miliband said: "When Winston Churchill replaces Elizabeth Fry on the £5 note, everyone who will appear on notes issued by the Bank of England will be a man. What kind of signal does that send? I read this week that Jane Austen is 'quietly waiting in the wings' to appear on a banknote one day. But 100 years on from the great struggle to give women the right to vote, women shouldn't be waiting quietly in the wings for anything. This is an important symbol of the kind of country we are. Why don't we have one of our great women scientists like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and a suffragette like Emmeline Pankhurst on our banknotes?" |
| The Labour leader said progress had been made towards greater gender equality as he noted that women made up 40% of the shadow cabinet. But he said: "We face a crisis of representation in our culture. Now, we all know the changes our culture has gone through in recent years. Many of those are good. Greater prominence is given to fantastic role models for women and girls than there were in the past – Clare Balding, Doreen Lawrence, JK Rowling, Jocelyn Bell Burnell – as well as many of you present here tonight. | The Labour leader said progress had been made towards greater gender equality as he noted that women made up 40% of the shadow cabinet. But he said: "We face a crisis of representation in our culture. Now, we all know the changes our culture has gone through in recent years. Many of those are good. Greater prominence is given to fantastic role models for women and girls than there were in the past – Clare Balding, Doreen Lawrence, JK Rowling, Jocelyn Bell Burnell – as well as many of you present here tonight. |
| "It also about how people are seen, about the images we have of each other, because it is partly from those images, we learn to interact. There is a culture of increasingly sexualised images among young people: a culture that says that girls will only get on in life if they live up to the crudest of stereotypes; a culture where pornographic images, some violent, are available at a click on a smartphone or a laptop. | "It also about how people are seen, about the images we have of each other, because it is partly from those images, we learn to interact. There is a culture of increasingly sexualised images among young people: a culture that says that girls will only get on in life if they live up to the crudest of stereotypes; a culture where pornographic images, some violent, are available at a click on a smartphone or a laptop. |
| "Like any parent, I worry about this. There are things that can be done including safer default settings on our computers. It puts a greater responsibility on all of us to do what we can to counter these images and not just by doing all we can to protect children in schools and on the internet. | "Like any parent, I worry about this. There are things that can be done including safer default settings on our computers. It puts a greater responsibility on all of us to do what we can to counter these images and not just by doing all we can to protect children in schools and on the internet. |
| "Schools should always ensure the aspirations of girls and boys are encouraged. And schools should offer proper relationship education at all key stages to ensure all our children have a proper chance to understand what they have a right to expect." | "Schools should always ensure the aspirations of girls and boys are encouraged. And schools should offer proper relationship education at all key stages to ensure all our children have a proper chance to understand what they have a right to expect." |
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