Report on sexism in Scottish politics from Engender

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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25307310.female-councillor-male-aggression-scottish-council/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25307404.why-women-scottish-politics-still-facing-hurdles-/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25307272.stark-report-reveals-widespread-sexism-abuse-scottish-politics/

'Women across all major Scottish parties face entrenched sexism, opaque selection processes, caring barriers and widespread abuse - with a 'default male' model still favoured, a major new report seen by The Herald reveals.
Seven out of ten women also said they faced online harassment during election campaigning with many flagging a lack of safety measures in place across all parties. '

A whole three articles from the Herald on this report, but nothing on Engender's site, and the articles are paywalled.

And they don't bother their arse with X.

'We no longer monitor or use this account.'

https://x.com/EngenderScot

What is the point of this tax payer funded research if nobody can read it?

Article on the Engender report by Wings, thought I’d add it to to the thread:

https://wingsoverscotland.com/according-as-we-need-them/

'Among its board of directors is Suzanne McLaughlin, a columnist for The National (quite coincidentally also the partner of its founding editor) and one of Scotland’s most aggressively intolerant transactivists.'

Crikey. Just had a look at her X account. She's ... not very nice, is she?

'Judging by the Herald’s piece – which we must presume would have cherry-picked the strongest findings of the study for a headline story – it appears that not one single shred of actual data about a supposed epidemic of misogyny has been revealed by Engender’s report. Politicians are being abused on a huge scale, but it’s not because they’re women, it’s because they’re politicians.'

Hm. It'd be good to read the report.

Ha, sure, nothing to see here... 🙄