Routes to power: summary of discussions with ethnic minority women councillors / Fawcett Society and Government Equalities Office, 29 October 2007
http://digbig.com/4twke
"Responding to the findings, Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equalities, has called for more ethnic minority women to take up roles in public life and wants the number of Black, Asian and ethnic minority women councillors to rise to around 1,000 to make councils fully representative and strengthen local democracy."