Improving the lives of women and girls | Letter

Signatories including Pragna Patel and Mary-Ann Stephenson are fighting for equality and women’s human rights, and are calling on candidates from across the political spectrum to adopt policies to redress any imbalancesThis election falls between the 101st anniversary of some women winning the right to stand for parliament and the 50th anniversary of the landmark Equal Pay Act. Yet in the outgoing parliament just a third of MPs were women – 4% were black and minority ethnic women.Mea