Maya de Souza, a Green Party councillor in London (Camden), has been appointed to a national cross-party taskforce which aims to increase the number of minority ethnic women local councillors across the country.
Women councillors currently make up just 29.3% of councillors, with ethnic minority women particularly under-represented (5.4% of the total population but only 0.9% of local councillors).
Cllr de Souza: "Local councils make many decisions that have a huge impact on all of us - from housing policy, the environment and education and also nurseries, after-school clubs and youth services. Women can't afford to leave all these decisions to men. It is vital to local, regional and national politics, if all interests are to be properly taken into account and good decisions made, that women play a full part."
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