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Relationship or relationships may refer to:

• Interpersonal relationship
• Intimate relationship

• In mathematics and statistics:
  • Binary relation
  • Causal relationship
  • Correlation and dependence
  • Direct relationship
  • Inverse relationship

• In database design:
  • Entity-relationship model
  • Relational model

• In media:
  • "Relationships", an episode of As Time Goes By
  • "Relationship", a song by Lakeside on the album Power

• In psychology:
  • Relationship breakup
  • Relationship counseling
  • Relationship education

See also[link]

• Relation (disambiguation)

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Jenny Watson is the chair of the United Kingdom Electoral Commission.

A long term campaigner for women's rights, she had a 20+ year career in the not for profit sector. She started out at Liberty,^[1] and then political campaigners Charter88, before moving to Victim Support. She is a former Chair of the Fawcett Society, a not-for-profit organisation campaigning for equality between women and men.^[1]

Watson was the last chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission before the creation of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights,^[1] having been first appointed as a commissioner in 1999, and deputy chair from 2000. She was deputy chair of the Banking Code Standards Board, and of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management.^[1]

Watson is a director of Global Partners and Associates. She is a member of the Advertising Standards Authority's advertising advisory committee, and sits on the Council of the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University. She currently sits on the board of the Audit Commission, but her tenure will not be renewed.^[2] She is a trustee of the Charities Aid Foundation,^[3] a non-executive director of the Waste & Resources Action Programme, and a trustee of the Money Advice Trust.^[3]

Watson was appointed the second chair of the Electoral Commission in January 2009.^[1] She is paid £100,000 for a role which requires her to work three days a week.^[4] Watson remained chair of the electoral commission amidst criticism of her management of the United Kingdom general election, 2010, when she defended herself on the grounds that the Electoral Commission had few powers over returning officers. Since then, the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 has increased the Commission's authority with regard to referendums. She formally announced the results of the last referendum held in the UK, regarding Welsh devolution, "in both English and Welsh with perfect pronunciation."^[5] [1]

Publications[link]

• Human Rights in Britain since the Human Rights Act 1998: A Critical Review co-authored with Alice Donald (Global Partners & Associates) and the Human Rights & Social Justice Research Unit of London Metropolitan University.^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bio at the Electoral Commission
• Profile at The Guardian

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