http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/discrimination_at_the_local_level Comments for "Discrimination at the local level, Zohra Moosa " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/discrimination_at_the_local_level Ethnic minority women lack access to power. They are severely underrepresented in senior decision-making positions across the public, private and voluntary sectors. The statistics are <a href="http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=538" target="_blank">stark</a>: less than 1% of top civil service managers are ethnic minority women, only 4 are directors of FTSE 100 companies (0.4%), and none of the 50 highest earning charities have a chair or chief executive that is an ethnic minority woman. <p> This under-representation is found in politics as well. There are only two ethnic minority women MPs (0.3%) and none in the Cabinet. There have only ever been three ethnic minority women MPs and there has never been an Asian woman MP. There are no ethnic minority women in either the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh National Assembly. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/discrimination_at_the_local_level" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/discrimination_at_the_local_level">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/discrimination_at_the_local_level#comment 50.50 Creative Commons normal Zohra Moosa Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:52:42 +0000 jon.bright 35096 at http://www.opendemocracy.net