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Volume 100 Parliaments An academic perspective Worldwide: £46 surface post 2019: Issue One A View from Australia of women’s political £52 airmail Editor’s Note CPA Photo Gallery History of the Page 36 representation in the UK Commonwealth The Parliamentarian Page 4 Page 14 Commonwealth Women Page 52 Parliamentarians discuss ISSN 0031-2282 Parliamentarians how to create effective Price per issue Challenges of increasing UK: £14 View from the CPA CPA News Former CWP Chairperson women’s representation Women Supporting Parliaments Issued and published by the Chairperson News reports include: Page 20 Report from 67th Westminster Worldwide: £15 surface post International Secretariat of the in Australia and New Women: CWP Alumni £16 airmail Gender equality, women and • CPA Fundamentals Zealand Initiative Seminar Commonwealth Parliamentary Programme with McGill Page 70 Parliaments Commonwealth A youth perspective Introducing the Commonwealth Association (CPA), CPA University wins industry award Disclaimer Page 6 Women in politics: Page 38 Women Parliamentarians Headquarters Secretariat, • CPA Chairperson at UN Forum Opinions and comments Progress on global Alumni Initiative An insider’s guide to Richmond House, Houses of View from the on Human Rights, Democracy change the CPA Fundamentals expressed in articles and Parliament, London Experiences of being a Page 56 reviews published in The Commonwealth Women and the Rule of Law The ‘Mother of the House’ in woman in Parliament Programme for CPA SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom. • CPA Working Group on CPA the UK Parliament Small Branches Parliamentarian are those of Parliamentarians (CWP) A personal view from Australia Male Parliamentarians Programmes Page 23 Report from the Isle of Man the individual contributors Chairperson Page 40 as ‘agents of change’ Tel: +44 (0) 20 7799 1460 • CPA Chairperson at CIS Page 72 and should not be attributed Cyber harassment against Gender inequality and the role Email: [email protected] Interparliamentary Assembly ‘Madam, Do not sit to the Secretariat of the women on social media Increasing the numbers of male MPs www.cpahq.org in St Petersburg there. That seat is for Association. Page 8 of Women in Parliament Page 60 Twitter @CPA_Secretariat • Retirement of outgoing UK the Minister’ PARLIAMENTARY A perspective from Pakistan Contributors Facebook.com/CPAHQ View from the CPA Small Clerk of Parliament Parliamentary experiences of Page 42 One hundred years of REPORTS Thank you to all contributors Branches Chairperson • CPA Secretary-General delivers the first woman Speaker of Mr Akbar Khan women’s suffrage in for this issue. Women and their participation Middlesex University Lecture the Parliament of Uganda Reflections on women’s Jersey Parliamentary Report Secretary-General • CPA Post-Election Seminar in Page 26 in Parliament empowerment History of Jersey women in Featuring parliamentary Grenada Printed in: United Kingdom Page 10 Importance of education to politics and legislative reports from Mr Jeffrey Hyland Pages 15-19 Women and Gender in by Warners Midlands, PLC; Editor, The Parliamentarian increase women’s political Page 62 Canada, British Columbia, New Delhi, India by Jainco View from the CPA Caribbean Politics participation United Kingdom, New Zealand, [email protected] Secretary-General Commonwealth Women The challenges facing women Art India; and Singapore Page 44 Gender equality in Sri Lanka, Australia and India by Times Printers Private Parliamentary gender Parliamentarians (CWP) in politics in the Caribbean Main images: CPA Parliaments on a small Pages 75-95 Limited. caucuses and the News Page 29 Headquarters Secretariat Increasing women’s island like Alderney Commonwealth Women News from the Commonwealth CPA Organisational and Shutterstock images. economic empowerment A personal view gender equality Parliamentarians at 30 Women Parliamentarians Women’s political Structure Additional images: CPA Finding policy solutions in the UK from a CPA Small Branch Page 12 (CWP) activities participation in the CPA CPA Executive Committee Branches and Members. Page 47 Page 64 Pages 67-69 Pacific Region Members, Commonwealth Front cover image: A View from New Zealand Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Shutterstock.com. Women and Equalities Page 33 Select Committee Steering Committee Members The Committee’s work in the UK and CPA Regional Secretaries Page 50 Page 96 2 | The Parliamentarian | 2019: Issue One | 100th year of publishing The Parliamentarian | 2019: Issue One | 100th year of publishing | 3 EDITOR’S NOTE EDITOR’S NOTE th of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, where she started the Women’s WOMEN AND PARLIAMENT: 30 ANNIVERSARY OF THE Parliamentary Caucus, and she writes about increasing the numbers of LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MALTA GOVERNMENT women in Parliament in Pakistan. Response to an article published in The Parliamentarian COMMONWEALTH WOMEN PARLIAMENTARIANS Rt Hon. Baroness D’Souza (United Kingdom) was elected as Volume 99/2018: Issue Four received from Matthew Carbone, the second Lord Speaker of the UK House of Lords in 2011and Deputy Head of Government Communications, Malta: the second woman to hold the position. She gives her reflections on ‘I refer to the article, in the latest issue of The Parliamentarian, women’s empowerment and writes about the importance of education entitled Media Rights: The Battle for Press and Media in increasing political