I have been in a women's group since we demonstrated at Greenham common. I have 2 daughters and a son and watching my daughters as adults and see that too many of the same restrictions apply to them now as did to me in th 60s . I feel that, in many ways, our society is moving backwards with its equality not forwards.

I am the daughter of a single mother, who is the daughter of a single mother. They're two of the strongest people I know, and I want to live in a country where women with that kind of strength are applauded and not ridiculed, rewarded and not punished. I want to live in a country where I can go home late at night, drunk with a short skirt on and get home safely. I want to live in a country that questions the morals of the attacker and not the woman that was attacked. I want live in a country where I have the same opportunities as the person next me, no matter what. But mostly I just want to live in a country where theses issues aren't issues.

As long as we have a society with luke warm attitudes to domestic violence and sexual abuse we have a big problem. I doubt we will ever stop some men from being predatory but we can certainly change the cultures and structures that enable them to abuse without consequence. Women are rendered vulnerable by lack of earning/borrowing power, childcare, mobility, gendered notions of womanhood and a wide range of intersecting oppressions. Without a women's equality party electoral promises to women are just bribes for the female vote.

My niece was born about this time last year, and a few months later I saw the article in The Guardian about how it would take another 70 years to close the gender pay gap. This prompted me to look into other gender issues and I realised that I didn't want my niece to grow up in this world where women are still treated as second class citizens. I got angry, mostly at myself. Angry that I had just accepted gender inequality and not done anything to try and change it. I don't want my niece to grow up the same. I started to hear talk of WE and I knew that I had to join, that I had to get involved. So I did

A while ago I wrote The Women's History of the World to give life to our age-old struggle for equality, and I am thrilled to be a part of this new initiative of WE at its beginning. All we need is a few good men and women working together to turn the wheel of history in favour of fairness for all, and the time has come!

I'm sick and tired of having to work twice as hard.I don't want this for my daughter, my nieces. Time to be genuinely equal. Celebrate diversity of course. But level the field.

Plucked up the courage to talk on the radio this morning to share the news about the first Somerset Branch launch event. Hope it will bring more people along and hopefully encourage others to start branches up for all those people out there in Somerset and yet over 30 miles away. If you want to listen it was Radio Somerset Breakfast Show at 8.48 am.

Sice I was a teen the ajority of my friends were boys I guess I found them easier to manage than girls, much more simple relationships. At the age of 30i became a mother now that was an eye opening experience! It really made me feel the inequality encompassing my new life. But, the most important thing that happened was the awakening of the woman in me, a proper strong, boobs out (arf) woman. I also needed women around me, there support and strong bond that being mothers had created in my friends. Women need each other. So I embrace motherhood,I embrace my friends, feminism and everything that goes along with being a woman.

I'm 18 years old and have just moved to university. For the last 7 years of my life, I have been at an all girls school. There was one particular girl who inspired me to join this party. She was not afraid to stand up for womens rights and really opened my eyes to the problems that still exist. Since arriving at uni, I have already been harassed three times whilst walking to class by men driving past in cars. It astounds me how they believe this is acceptable behaviour to exhibit in front of hundreds of students in broad daylight. WEP is needed, however sad that fact may be and I am so happy to have finally found a party that truly reflect my views. Thank you :)

Although I'm only 17 I've always been very aware of the world around me, both politically and within the media, and it's become incredibly clear to me that something needs to change. I've considered myself a feminist since I was about 10 and able to understand what the word meant, and it both shocked and scared me that in a recent Media Studies lesson (in a room full of 17-19 year olds) I was the only person that believed that women are not yet equal. We need to ensure that everyone is aware of their environment, and that although gender equality has progressed, we're far from equal.

Coming from a family of strong women I constantly feel frustrated that women do not share the same opportunities as men, are not given the same freedom of choice, nor do they receive the same respect. I believe it is time to redress that

I have spent 35 years working in global public health in so-called ‘developing’ countries, long enough to know that the health and well-being of both sexes cannot be achieved without addressing the social, economic, political and individual inequalities that impact women in all countries, especially gender-based violence. Yet who are we development workers to preach when in our own country 51% of the population continues to be treated as second class citizens? In my teens and 20s I had hoped that the Labour Party would be able to push the interests of women but it has proved to be just as bad as other political parties. It is high time for a breath of political fresh air which gives women – and men - real alternatives, and will help to shape a world that our children can be proud of and where are all treated equally, regardless of their sex.

Equality is right and better for all we know that. Our progress towards it is painfully slow and not steady. WE is a chance to pool energy and develop a coherent co-ordinated strategy to get there. Women have been allowed to practice law for 96 years. Lord Sumptions tells us we must wait a further 50 years to get equality in the judiciary or we will damage it. His comments were a good example of the urgent need for WE. Here is someone in a powerful position completely falling to recognise his own privilege or really understand systemic and unconscious bias.It is clear that gender and race do determine your abillity as a judge. So the truth is we do not have the best judiciary we could have. We have the best white men, a few of the best women and BME and mediocre white men.

Men and women should be treated as people first, foremost and only and not as genders. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander but all people should be well behaved towards each other: no violence, no exploitation, no assignation of role and no ridicule for being different. Women are not second class citizens and we should push for equality until we get it. Men will benefit in the long run.

Finally a political stance I really relate to. I truly wondered if I'd ever feel engaged by politics again. I am a young, self employed, business owner and Mum of one. I support equality for all regardless of gender, age, race and sexuality but find through my experiences many people facing struggles because of a lack in equality. Whilst I understand we have made big steps within society, I still see the need for great changes in society's attitudes towards equality within education, business, the justice system and social culture too. Throughout my life men have been my role models, life partner, closest friends, teachers and peers (though not forgetting the many significant female roles in my life). It is important that that we work together for a greater cause. There should be no divide between us.

Since 2008 I'm specialising in getting more women into boardrooms of top organisations to make the corporate world a more human place. I run corporate programmes for male-dominated companies who want to have more women at the top and I run an open course for women who want to have more self-confidence, more focus and play a bigger game I'm passionate about female leadership and I love the rise of the women's equality party.

Hi all. I have spent my career working in the Corporate world trying to work out how it is that men get on and women's skills and approach to solving problems are not valued. I've just come back from ten years in Australia where the problem was even more noticeable. I have attended countless 'Women in Business' events where we hear inspirational stories from those who have broken through the ceiling but always felt they were preaching to the converted - I want men to hear these stories! I am inspired by this party and look forward to getting involved

I'm a business owner of 8 years, and mother of two. I'm a landlord and I started my letting agency from scratch and now employ 8 people, I also run a Mums in Business support group. I experience and hear about prejudice all the time from the women I speak to and realise that a lot of men still get to 'pull rank' when it comes to financial or household major decisions and when last minute child care is needed - and this just isn't right. There is a tendency for some men to view that a woman who runs a business, but is connected with their wife socially (even via business networking), somehow it isn't running an outfit as serious as other businesses. The elephant in the room is that it can't be a 'proper' business, as the perception is that women just start small cottage industry 'pin money' businesses and we are not thinking big - it just makes my blood boil! Sometimes they don't even bother to meet with me themselves, or they are in the house but don't talk to me - the judgement has already been made and they let their partner invite me along with his choice of agent as a token gesture. I spoke to someone this week who said all that was expected of her was to be a machinist in a local factory when she was growing up, she's now very successful in her own right and that girls still are not being educated to 'think big'. This is just two examples of the perception of women in society still - it needs to change - now!!

I am a middle-aged father of four (ages 10-20) who gave up work as a doctor 18 years ago to become a full time house husband. Having walked the walk, it might be time to talk the talk as well. This party feels like a breath of fresh air; and being half-Danish myself, with a sense of humour, how could I not join? Tillykke Sandi

As a business owner, mum and wife, i still experience inequality in daily life. I want to set the right example to my family and others around me and to help improve our society's understanding and approach to equality.