Deputy leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman defied Commons convention by wearing a charity t-shirt to Prime Minister’s Questions. 
The Fawcett Society’s t-shirt has been deemed an iconic symbol of feminism and Mrs Harman is presumed to have worn it to protest David Cameron’s refusal to do so.
After the other major party leaders sent shots of themselves in the t-shirt and Cameron refused five times, Lorraine Candy, the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, said: “It seems the Prime Minister still has an issue with the word ‘feminist’.”
This is just the latest episode in a long and tense relationship between Britain’s seat of government and the struggle for gender equality though.
There have been controversies at Cameron’s PMQs before. No doubt the Prime Minister still regrets telling Angela Eagle to “calm down, dear!” in 2011 in response to a particularly heated question.
After a Liberal Democrat uproar and media questions regarding the male-heavy government front-bench, there appears to have been a change in the commons. All of the parties are now working hard to encourage women to join, five women recently joined the government front benches and the winds of change are blowing.
Some say that the tide is not turning against gender inequality at the top levels of government fast, even a hundred years since the suffragette movement.