In a world in which ‘everyday sexism’ remains rife, progress on gender discrimination will require quotas

As our recent Audit of Democracy post by Sonali Campion and the DA team showed, the UK continues to exhibit large disparities in power and representation between men and women. Here, Nicola Lacey of the LSE’s Commission on Gender, Inequality and Power shares findings from the commission’s final report, and recommends that quotas – particularly when it comes to political representation – should be instituted in order that we see meaningful process.