Surmounting barriers for women to run for political office

Susannah Wellford, CEO and Founder of Running Start, a non partisan non profit organisation training young women to run for political office, talks to Paul Adamson about the barriers women face when seeking a career in politics and how these can be surmounted.

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Hi. I’m Paul Adamson, the founder of Encompass, an online magazine about the European Union and its place in the world and, through also our podcasts and live events, a space for discussion and debate. These podcasts are me “in conversation with” personalities that I think have interesting things to say. They are deliberately informal and are designed to be illuminating as well as, hopefully, entertaining.