Senedd Women's Caucus

The Senedd Women’s Caucus was established in the Sixth Senedd as a cross-party forum for Members, which brought together women parliamentarians across party lines to provide peer support and advance gender equality.

The Sixth Senedd’s Caucus was made up of all women Members of the Senedd, chaired by Joyce Watson MS and a Steering Group of representatives from each party.

Vision and Mission

The vision

A gender equal and fully inclusive Wales, where:

everyone is empowered to engage with politics (as citizens and as elected representatives) regardless of their gender and other protected characteristics, including socio-economic status, and
policies, laws, programmes and budgets are designed to be sensitive to the diverse needs and experiences of the population.

The mission

To bring together women Members of the Senedd from across the political parties to:

work purposefully, promoting and supporting women’s participation in politics and identifying current barriers within our parliamentary system.
develop and advocate policy and practice initiatives that address issues affecting our women parliamentarians and society.
advance the agreed agenda of the Caucus within political parties and other spheres of Senedd influence.

The Caucus engaged in a wide range of activities in pursuit of the progressive realisation of removing barriers to effective political participation and enhancing equality within the Senedd and in society.