David Cameron announced last week that he would be setting up four new think tanks to develop new Conservative policies - he said that they must include women in their ranks. According to journalist Mary Dejevsky, political think tanks employ relatively small numbers of women. This week she wrote that among senior researchers and speakers, women are regularly outnumbered three to one.
Is this something we should be concerned about? What are the consequences of this? And should think tanks be doing more to increase female participation in their work? Martha Kearney talks to Mary Dejevsky of the Independent, and Ruth Lea, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies.
