The Health and Sport Committee discusses care home sustainability
The committee then considers care home sustainability
MSPs debate equalities and human rights
The first minister leads a debate marking 100 years of women's right to vote
SNP MSP leads a debate on cyber-resilience among young people
Image source, bbcMs Martin praises North East College students and representatives of Young Scot
Ms Martin praises North East College and Young Scot's for Digi Aye and for producing two videos which will be premiered at tonights parliamentary reception.
She says they will be shown on the Young Scot website, external
SNP MSP Gillian Martin says everyone knows stories of online bullying.
Ms Martin says the practice is now normalised and says the sending of naked photos by youngsters is endemic and will have far reaching consequences.
She says guidance teachers tell her about issues increasing in intensity overnight due to social media.
Image source, bbcSNP MSP Gillian Martin
Ms Martin say nude photos are used as a bullying tool by boys and girls.
She says she has a fourteen year old girl, who won't thank her for mentioning her, and says her initial reaction on hearing those stories was to build a tower to protect her.
However, Ms Martin says the best thing to to do is to talk to your children and point out sharing nude photos is breaking the law.
SNP MSP Gillian Martin's motion highlights:
Image source, Scottish parliamentSNP MSP Gillian Martin kicks off her debate on encouraging cyber-resilience among young people.
Image source, Scottish governmentThe Conservative and Labour amendment from the debate Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote are unanimously agreed to.
The government motion as amended is unanimously agreed to.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance is closing the debate for the government.
Ms Constance outlines her highlights from this very consensual debate.
She says: "The past always speaks to the present."
Image source, bbcThe equalities secretary details horrific postcards from the past but says 100 years on women are still hearing that abuse on social media.
The minister cites the sickiening abuse sent to Labour MP Diane Abbott.
She concludes saying the funding announced by the first minister will seek to improve female representation in political life.
In the next ten years there will be more progress than has been in the last 100, hopes the minister.
"The time to act is now."
Image source, bbcTory MSP Liz Smith
Tory MSP Liz Smith says when Emily Davidson threw herself infront of a horse at the Epsom Derby it became one of the most contentious politcal protests of all time.
Ms Smith details the courageous protests of the Suffragettes.
She says they did whatever it took to shake out of the establishment of the prejudice that a women's place was only in the home.
Ms Smith says there is a lot of work still to do on BME equalities.
She says: "There is still so much to do in terms of changing attitudes."
"We salute the Suffragettes but realise there legacy is not complete."
Image source, bbcLabour MSP Rhoda Grant
Labour MSP Rhoda Grant says Kezia Dugdale pointed out women are still suffering today due to inequality.
Ms Grant says jobs predominately done by women are paid much less than those predominately done by men.
"We need to value the work that women do."
She says she tells women on the doorstep they must use their vote because around the world there are still women dying for trying to do so.
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Emmeline Pankhurst's great-granddaughter strikes memorial 50p
The great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, has struck a new coin to mark the 100th anniversary of women being granted the vote.
Dr Helen Pankhurst visited the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, to use a press to imprint the new design onto the 50p coin.
It commemorates the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, passed on 6 February 1918.
The act gave the vote to women over the age of 30 and "of property".
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Image source, PA"I am glad to hear you are in hospital. I hope you suffer torture until you die, you idiot."
Signed "an Englishman", this piece of hate mail was sent to votes-for-women campaigner Emily Wilding Davison as she lay dying in hospital in June 1913.
Days earlier, she had been trampled by the King's horse after ducking on to the track in a protest at the Epsom Derby.
She never regained consciousness and her death on 8 June is regarded as a key point in the votes-for-women campaign.
The first mass petition backing votes for women was presented to Parliament in 1866.
But it took until 6 February 1918 for the law to change for some women, and only in 1928 did women finally gain equal voting rights with men.
Nancy Astor was the first female MP to take her seat in the House of Commons in December 1919.
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Scottish Lib Dem MSP Willie Rennie concedes that he is a "white male leader of an all male parliamentary group".
Mr Rennie wants to use his leadership to change the composition in the fututre.
Image source, bbcWillie Rennie, the Tardis and Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
SNP MSP Christina McKelvie asks if a young Willie Rennie, with the power of time travel, would go back and tell the Liberal PM to give women the vote.
Deputy Presiding Officer Christine Grahame asks: "Well Mr Rennie do you have a Tardis?"
No, admits Mr Rennie who says we'd all do things differently.
Image source, PARelatives of women's rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst have written a new choral piece marking 100 years of women's suffrage.
The Pankhurst Anthem features music by composer Lucy Pankhurst and text by Helen Pankhurst, based on words written by her great-grandmother.
Lucy said setting the words to music had been "a very humbling experience".
It premiered on the Radio 3 website on today, exactly 100 years after (some) British women got the vote.
Green MSP Alison Johnstone concludes saying the number of women in this chamber shows progress on equality is not linear.
The Green MSP warmly welcomes the first minister's announcement today.
Image source, bbcFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced a £500,000 fund to encourage more women to become involved in politics.
The initiative is intended as a tribute to the suffragettes who campaigned for women to be allowed to vote.
Ms Johnstone says the legacy of these remarkable campaigners must be honoured but the gap must be closed.
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