Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is set to launch a campaign in the New Year to celebrate 100 years since the first woman secured the right to vote in the UK (with the 1918 Representation of the People Act). He announced his plans while visiting Platanos College in Lambeth, joining teenage girls and boys in a Fawcett Society workshop about the work of Millicent Fawcett and the Suffragist movement.

The name of the new campaign –‘ #BehindEveryGreatCity’ - is a play on the expression ‘behind every great man is a great woman’. It comes at a time when City Hall data shows that three times more women than men in London say that their gender hinders progression at work.

Sadiq Khan announces new campaign to drive gender equality across London