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#WomenLead (Issue 89): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

Hello, and welcome to Issue 89!

Please forgive us that this edition is coming in a day late. Last week was brimming ✨ with work for us - as UK MP Jess Phillips tweeted, “International Women's Day is like Christmas for feminists, in that it is a shed load of work”. It really was full of reading, writing, talking, discussing, thinking all things women in p…