Please sign up to the 50:50 Parliament Thunderclap right now. It is so easy, this is the link: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/67562-5050parliament-stillmarching. It means that on 6th Feb at 8.00 pm, the exact time one hundred years ago that the Act was passed giving some women the right to vote, a tweet or post in support of #5050Parliament #StillMarching will be sent from your social media account. Please share the link with your friends. We will all be tweeting and posting together and hopefully the hashtags will trend. It's like a march on social media! 50:50 have been called the 21st Century Suffragettes and this Centenary year we are leading the charge to get more women elected to Westminster with our #AskHerToStand campaign. Our #AskHerToStand initiative aims to inspire, encourage and support women along the pathway to Parliament. Our mission is to get 117 more women elected to Westminster at the next election. If you know a woman who would make a good MP then please nominate her at via our #AskHerToStand campaign at our fantastic new website: www.5050Parliament.co.uk. It works; 50:50 inspired Rosie Duffield to stand in the 2017 election and she is now an MP. Representation shapes policy and the leading legislative body in our country should draw upon the widest possible pool of talent and experience, including that half of the population that are women, all 32 million of us! At the last election only 12 extra women were elected, which means it will take 50 years to get gender equality at Westminster, that's too long to wait, 50:50 are impatient for change. Thanks for joining 50:50. Let's build a better democracy together. Frances, Hannah, Dolly, Laura, Elaine & all 50:50 Team 50:50 Parliament Links: Website: ALL JOIN 50:50 at www.5050Parliament.co.uk Facebook Page: Like https://www.facebook.com/5050Parliament/ Facebook Group: Join https://www.facebook.com/5050Parliament/ Twitter: Follow https://twitter.com/5050Parliament?lang=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNf_RiJLsBAvg3w9aVr47Rg/videos 50:50 Parliament has been profiled in: The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/11571980/General-Election-Modern-suffragettes-fighting-for-political-equality.html Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/frances-scott/gender-equality_b_7540358.html Evening Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/letters/letters-to-the-editor-sort-out-london-bridge-station-10101673.html The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/16/daily-mail-downing-street-catwalk-female-ministers-outrage Over 52,000 people have signed the 50:50 Petition www.change.org/5050Parliament and some comments highlight why this is such a key issue: “Apart from the obvious injustice we are in no position to under-utilise so much talent” - Helen “I'm signing because evidence shows that better decisions are made by organisations if the gender balance is more equal” - Gwyn “I want my views to be understood and represented” - Zoe “The views of the country can't be represented and suitable policies developed, if we don't have a diverse parliament. We need more women to lead and participate in decision making” - Kate “If the institution of Parliament discourages women to participate, it is the institution that needs to change” - Malcolm