Chris Williamson was a Labour Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Derby North. He served as Shadow Minister for Fire and Emergency Services under both Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn. .
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he senior female colleague with whom I share an office has a perennial complaint. When a call is put through from the switchboard on a land line, the assumption made by the caller is that she is my office assistant rather than one of the country’s foremost business writers and broadcasters.
Decades after the feminist movement, there is still an unconscious bias that a woman working alongside a man must be in charge of his diary.
Many of us in the Jewish community have experienced some form of conscious bias. One of my fellow classmates was constantly greeted with the refrain ‘Jewish boys can’t paint.’ Antisemitism, as the community has learnt to its cost, is as rampant on the far left as it is among the right-wing populist parties in the EU.