Abstract
This chapter is an account of the establishment of Women2win, an organization created in 2005 to support the selection of women candidates for political office in the UK Conservative party. Its author is its founding, and still, co-Director, Baroness Anne Jenkin. The chapter charts the efforts of Women2win over the last decade, and discusses the issues that it has faced in securing a higher number of Conservative women MPs in the UK Parliament. In 2015 there were a total of 68 Conservative women MPs (20 percent) up from 17 (9 percent) in 2005. The chapter charts, then, considerable success for the party, although it also points out ongoing concerns about the supply pool – the number of women seeking selection – and the practical issues of seeing women aspirant candidates being selected for the party’s winnable seats.
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