Almost all female MSPs have experienced online abuse, a survey conducted by Holyrood has found. This includes rape threats, ...

Female MSPs have spoken out about the online abuse they have suffered, with one Labour frontbencher revealing she has been ...

All political parties need to do more to counter the “toxic” political culture to help attract women, former Scottish first ...

Female MSPs have spoken out about the online abuse they have suffered, with one Labour frontbencher revealing she has been branded a “poisoned dwarf” while a Tory said she was told she would b ...

A report co-authored by Kings College and the University of Copenhagen found that while male and female politicians face similar online abuse, abuse targeting women was “more severe”, with attacks ...

Scottish Labour’s Monica Lennon spoke with The Daily Record after Elspeth Wood was convicted for licking her neck, grabbing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Monica Lennon has said there must be greater protection on the campaign trail after Elspeth Wood pled guilty to ...

Central Scotland MSP Monica Lennon described the May 2024 attack as a "violation" after she was grabbed and repeatedly licked ...

In the Holyrood magazine published today, Labour education spokeswoman Pam Duncan-Glancy describes the “utterly relentless” abuse directed at her on social media, where she had been called a “dwarf,” ...

This means approximately 46% of MSPs were women. This is lower than the proportion of women in Scotland (51%). The number of women leading or co-leading political parties has fallen in recent years.

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has urged ministers to direct public sector bodies to provide single-sex spaces for women and girls.

Her comments came days after female MSPs spoke about the abuse they have suffered while in the job, with Labour’s Pam Duncan-Glancy revealing she was once branded a “poisoned dwarf” and Tory ...