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Excluded, stereotyped and abused: where do women stand in UK politics today?

100 years since (some) women won the right to vote, they’re still marginalised in corridors of our power – and facing a backlash there too.

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Feminists protest in Westminster, in 2012, dressed as suffragettes. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive/PA Images. All rights reserved.

Visitors at Westminster Hall are now welcomed into the British Houses of Parliament by a stained glass installation called “New Dawn”. Created in 2016 by the artist Mary Branson, and measuring six metres high, it’s an eye-catching, colourful celebration of the mass movement for women’s suffrage in the UK.