Women's charity YWCA published a study at the It's A Girl Thing conference earlier this month. The study suggests that although young people are being called on to participate in local and national consultations, they feel their opinions have little impact on public decision-making.
In a poll of 614 young people, 12 per cent of young women felt they had no influence at all compared with just three per cent of young men. Of the young people expressing a desire for change, 72 per cent offered some opinion about how they might bring about change. Here, the gender difference was again great: of this opinionated group, 21 per cent of young women felt they had no influence compared with nine per cent of the young men.
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