DivaManc group set up to give women a voice in Manchester devolution

Fed up with ‘pale, stale’ men among region’s powerbrokers, pressure group will help women have a say in devolution debateFor a region that spawned the suffragettes, it is a rather shaming tally. Nine out of 10 council leaders and seven out of 10 council chief executives in Greater Manchester are men. So were all three of Labour’s candidates contesting the inaugural Greater Manchester mayoral debate, with Leigh MP Andy Burnham eventually winning the selection battle and ex