10. Short Debate A century since women gained the right to vote, but does Wales have equality today?

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:04 pm on 24 January 2018.

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Photo of Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Labour 7:04, 24 January 2018

Diolch, Siân. Thanks very much for bringing this debate. This figure for local government, the representation of women, is 28 per cent if I remember the figure right. At a time when austerity is hitting really hard, right down to local government budgets, the lack of women around the table in the first place and the serious lack of women driving the economic agendas forward in cabinets is of even greater concern, because the result is that it's not even as if women have got a voice—it's absolutely silent. So, when you come to cutting the budgets for the services that women rely on the most, it is fairly easy to do that—or not even to think about it—if women aren't sitting around the table.