21 May 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
… and improve women ’s and girls’ health and are taking action to improve the health outcomes for women in Wales , including the development of the women ’s health plan …
15 May 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
… cancers, early diagnosis is vital for increasing the chance of survival, but sadly only a third of women in Wales are diagnosed at stages 1 or 2. Clearly, we need to ensure that the system is listening …
15 May 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
… the inquiry, and hopefully to everyone present today, it's clear that we are letting the women of Wales down. From the awareness, diagnosis, treatment and every step along the journey, we're letting far too many …
15 May 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee Report, 'Unheard: Women's journey through gynaecological cancer'
… and lack of concrete commitments by any transformative change that can meet the challenges and needs of women in Wales now and in the future. And significantly, although the Cabinet Secretary accepted 24 of our recommendations, either …
1 May 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
… And I do think that if you have an organisation like WEN Wales , which represents thousands of women in Wales , amongst many organisations, like the Women ’s Institute, the Soroptimists and many others, who say that they feel …
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
… asked and asked and asked to be represented at meetings and to have a platform, they represent women of Wales as well. They will have a very firm view, as will I, really, that the women 's groups …
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
… about helping women . That's what it's supposed to be about. We want to help women in Wales , as I've said numerous times, but this Bill doesn …
24 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
… tool that is unnecessary, in our view, although we want fair representation and fair opportunities for the women of Wales …
24 April 2024 , Plenary
90-second Statements
… never been told or heard about it. It's for this reason that Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales has set up a petition, calling on the Senedd to instruct NHS Wales to add adenomyosis to its …
18 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with academics
Dr Larissa Peixoto Vale Gomes
… are very positive. I think it lays out a very solid mechanism for improving the representation of women in Wales . I also think it's important to consider this beyond an idea of a shortcut or something just …
18 April 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with electoral reform organisations
Absolutely. I think in order to increase the candidate pool of women in Wales , women need to be able to afford to stand for election, and finance is such a critical barrier to women 's candidacy. Generally, women …
20 March 2024 , Plenary
90-second Statements
… constituency hosted a birthday party to celebrate their centenary, a very impressive milestone. Life for women in Wales was very different when this group was established in 1924. The WI has evolved as our country has changed socially …
20 March 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
… year since the start of the pandemic. The condition, for whatever reason, is often overlooked, with women in Wales being told by medical professionals that they were making a fuss about nothing or that all they were experiencing …
13 March 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
… disability rights action plan. We've got to look at this from the perspective of the diverse women of Wales having this opportunity to come forward to benefit from these gender quotas, and I made that point very …
13 March 2024 , Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
How many women in Wales think that they're going to be encouraged to come forward to stand, to be representatives in our Welsh Parliament? If we can't at least enable them to have an opportunity—. And …
12 March 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: International Women’s Day
… other socioeconomic inequalities, which is clear in every report we read. Study after study tells us that women in Wales are at greater risk of poverty and that the cost-of-living crisis is disproportionately impacting women , particularly …
12 March 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: International Women’s Day
… parents. Their efforts led them to win the Wales Business Awards' diversity and inclusion award last year. Women across Wales are making their mark as leaders. Last year, Natasha Hirst became the first disabled president of the National …
12 March 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip: Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill
… more effective Senedd, and I'm hopeful that the reforms in this Bill will give the diverse women of Wales , across the political spectrum, the confidence to put their names forward to successfully stand as candidates in Senedd …
21 February 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: The importance of Wales's voice in the campaign for peace—Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of presenting the peace petition by the Women of Wales to President Coolidge and Wales's role in speaking up for peace today
… She said this on the steps of the Temple of Peace: 'In the name of the women of Wales it is my privilege to open the building. I dedicate it to the memorial to those gallant men …
21 February 2024 , Plenary
Short Debate: The importance of Wales's voice in the campaign for peace—Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of presenting the peace petition by the Women of Wales to President Coolidge and Wales's role in speaking up for peace today
… them of his own Welsh history and his own Welsh origins. Of course, Llywydd, when men and women from Wales went to America in the nineteenth century, they were republicans. They were republicans because they belonged to the …