Family-friendly working: will MPs practice what they preach? - fringe event at Autumn Conference
November 9, 2011 10:46 AM
Chaired by Dinti Batstone, Vice-Chair of CGB, the fringe looked at whether MPs could job share and how Parliament could be more family-friendly. The panel of speakers included Lynne Featherstone, MP, Minister for Equalities; Sarah Jackson OBE, CEO of Working Families; Anna Bird, CEO of Fawcett Society; and Maggy Pigott CBE, a retired job-sharing senior civil servant.
The fringe was very well attended, with the panel providing thought-provoking insights, followed by stimulating questions and comments from our lively audience.
Dinti Batstone, who has campaigned vigorously for candidates to be empowered to stand for election on a job-share basis, was delighted with the fringe's success: "Done properly, parliamentary job-sharing can be a win-win for constituents and politics. It would make becoming an MP more viable for many women, and bring a greater diversity of real world experience into Parliament. Constituents are fed-up with Westminster bubble career politicians - this is a chance to break open the closed shop".
Video Links
Intro & Anna Bird, CEO, Fawcett Society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GytwqEx2AJs
Sarah Jackson OBE, Working Families
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1C1_aOPVYw
Lynne Featherstone MP, Minister for Equalities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxnYp3285n8
Maggy Pigott CBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHK9vIPxrdY
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