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Proceeding contribution from Glenda Jackson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 16 October 2008. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On.


Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On

I do not agree that society was not set up in a discriminatory way: it most certainly was. It has moved on, but we have not gone all the way yet. Will the Minister raise the idea with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport that it could, for example, begin to encourage the people who make television programmes, or those who publish magazines that target young and teenage girls, to set up role models that are not, as someone mentioned earlier, a kind of Barbie doll and begin to proselytise for those careers and professions in an interesting way?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
480 c363WH 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Subjects
Adult education Women Employment Equality Pay Professions Public sector Managers Part-time employment Training
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk