
A Spotlight On 'Women In Politics'
While the society gained affiliation with the St Andrews Student Union in January 2025, Claire Waskow and Petra Pender, co-founders of WIP, started generating the idea for the society much earlier in the academic year. However, it was the United States presidential election that ultimately catalysed the creation of the society. Pender commented: “Claire texted me after the election, I think it was a day after or two days after, being like, ‘let’s kick this up a bit, let’s found Women in Politics...