
What is it that we actually want and how are we going to get it?
In her latest blog, Manchester resident Dr Sophie King, from the University of Sheffield, points to DivaManc as one of a number of small...

Women in Greater Manchester – Evidence Document
Women in Greater Manchester – Evidence Document Produced by The Fawcett Society The contributions of the 1.4 million women and girls in...

Help us craft Mayoral Pledges
Mayoral Pledges [Draft] (see below for longer version) As Mayor for Greater Manchester I pledge to: Call for gender-balanced leadership...

The Greater Manchester Women Taking a Lead in the Public Realm
The number of women in senior management and leadership roles remains challenging for both the private and public sector but the latter...

What Works: Gender Equality by Design
My recommended read for 2017. What's yours? (blog originally posted at www.HappenCIC.org) As we said goodbye to 2016, Nicola and I...

Word of DivaManc is spreading
This month DivaManc has been featured in Public Sector Focus, UK and in Tribune Feminista, Spain! (article as published in Public Sector...

DivaManc Switch-On:From ideas to actions
DivaManc Switch-On, Connecting women and their ideas for a brighter DevoManc, 10 November It was wonderful to see so many women at our...

Striving for power not perfection
I arrived at our 'DivaManc Switch-On', on 12 November, a cold wet Thursday evening, feeling rather bruised and shaken by Trump's...

Teenage Mum's & their children bare brunt of Cuts
Further research has shown that the austerity effect 'hits women twice as hard as men' (the Guardian, 19 November). And some women are...

Listening to women's voices in devomanc
Some people love the name, some people hate it. One thing is for sure, DivaManc has caught people’s attention. This is exactly what we...