“I think it’s important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don’t have value. There is massive pregnancy discrimination, in parliament and right across society.”

— Jo Swinson

Said in a Guardian interview in January 2019. Sethi, Anita (19 January 2019) Jo Swinson MP: ‘I first wrote to my MP when I was about 10’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/19/jo-swinson-mp-interview-equal-power-gender-equality-activism in the Guardian. Retrieved 23 July 2019. <br class="br">2019

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