Welcome to Women into Grassroots and Local Politics: The Political is Getting Personal #weawip13

Welcome to

Women into Grassroots and Local Politics:

The Political is Getting Personal

#weawip13http://womenintopolitics.wordpress.com/weawip13/

Andria Birch

WEA East Midlands Projects Development Manager

Regional Lead for the Women’s Learning Programme

[email protected] 0783 3437005

WEA Women’s Learning Programme

Surveys and meetings

• Meeting: • The next Women Leading Learning (Notts WEA

Women’s Student Group) open meeting: 25th April 2013 1.15 to 3.15pm Friends Meeting House, Nottingham. http://womenleadinglearning.wordpress.com

• Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WLPdevelopment

Course aims and learning outcomes

•  Each session will be led by a different WEA tutor with a range of skills and experience to complement the aims of the course.

• By the end of this course students will be able to: •  • 1. Identify how to get involved or support local or

grassroots politics as appropriate

• 2. Assess different methods to survive, become resilient and thrive within political spaces

Course aims and learning outcomes continued:

• 3. Evaluate different models and strategies of relationship building and organising which increase effectiveness of local and grassroots politics

•   • 4. Develop practical skills and tools which

support effective campaigning or lobbying within grassroots or local politics.

Session One

Lisa Robinson

WEA Tutor, Teacher TrainerDirector, Bright Ideas

Session One Learning Outcomes1. Define the term ‘grassroots and local politics’ 2. Discuss the difference that women have and can

make to grassroots and local politics 3. Provide an example of a woman who has made a

difference in their local community 4. Identify challenges and rewards of getting involved in

grassroots and local politics 5. Set personal aim/s and learning goal/s for the course

W is for Women Welcome and domestics Wish list What do we mean by ‘grassroots and local politics’?Women inspirers Who runs Britain?Whose responsibility is diversity in politics?

The Fawcett Society

QUIZ

Sex and Power 2013

Who runs Britain? Counting Women In

1. In what year did women get the equal right to vote?

A. 1867

B. 1918

C. 1928

2. In what year was the Sex Discrimination Act passed?

A. 1975

B. 1986

C. 1997

3. What percentage of MPs are currently women?

A. 15.5 %

B. 22.5 %

C. 35.5 %

4. What percentage of Councillors are women?

A. 12%

B. 22%

C. 32%

In conclusion, Britain is a country largely run by men

A. True

B. Not true C. There is not enough evidence to say

Margaret Thatcher 1925 - 2013• UK Prime Minister 1979 to 1990• Only woman to have held this office• Leader of the Conservative Party 1975 to 1990• First female leader of a political party in the UK• Soviet journalist dubbed her ‘The Iron Lady’• Policies became known as ‘Thatcherism’• Falkands War, Poll Tax, High Unemployment • 1992 Given life peerage ‘Baroness Thatcher’

In an IPSOS Mori poll for Reuters, 2011, who did 36% of the public say was

Britain’s most capable leader? A. Margaret Thatcher

B. Tony Blair

C. David Cameron

According to a Guardian Poll what percentage of the public thought that Margaret Thatcher played

an important role in “changing attitudes about the role in society that women can play”?

A. 22% B. 42%

C. 62%

Twitter this week • @Barack Obama She stands as an example to our daughters that

there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered• “She had courage in what was very much a man’s World, and

brooked little or no compromise.” Mark Seddon, Journalist• @bindelj To call Margaret Thatcher a feminist is an insult• @patreid121 Thatcher bought people with her ... kicking and

screaming, but she led • @edwestonline Don’t blame Margaret Thatcher for the

selfishness of our generation• @Stylesahoy is market thatcher some one to do with our queen?

Learning Outcomes1. Define the term ‘grassroots and local politics’ 2. Discuss the difference that women have and can

make to grassroots and local politics 3. Provide an example of a woman who has made a

difference in their local community 4. Identify challenges and rewards of getting involved in

grassroots and local politics 5. Set personal aim/s and learning goal/s for the course