International Women�s Day

Debate between Dawn Butler and Caroline Nokes

Thursday 6th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Dawn Butler]

I thank the Minister for doing what she does and reading out those names. This was a very difficult debate to have had, and I feel more emotional than normal because I fear that things are going to get worse. I fear that that list is going to get longer, because we are at a tipping point. If we do not stop what is going on around the world, and if we do not call it out, it will get worse.

I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. It has been a powerful debate, and it is wonderful for Members to have an excuse to talk about the brilliant women in their constituencies. It has been great to hear about them, and I would love to meet them all. Women have talked about their lived experiences: about being pregnant and how they were treated as a disabled woman; about being the youngest woman in Parliament and how they are treated; and about being raped and how they have come through that. I hope that everybody outside the Chamber hears that lived experience and hears those stories.

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Caroline Nokes)]

And we should never need an excuse.

Question put and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this House has considered International Women�s Day.