Where are the women in LSPs?

Publication date: 2007

Local Strategic Partnerships are key decision-making bodies at local level, controlling significant resources, and all public bodies now have legal obligations under the Gender Duty to actively promote gender equality. But this report, published by Urban Forum, Oxfam and the Women’s Resource Centre, reveals that only a quarter of chairs of LSP Boards are women. The report also found that the voice of women’s voluntary and community organisations is hardly heard at all. Fewer than 2 per cent of voluntary and community sector representatives on LSPs are women’s organisations, despite making up 7 per cent of the voluntary and community sector.

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