International Women's Day's on Monday so today (Saturday) am heading down to help ‘woman' a stall at the Old Market as part of IWD celebrations.

This prompted me to ponder the unusual election campaign in Brighton Pavilion where all the main party candidates are women.

According to the Fawcett Society, which monitors gender balance in political life, this is probably the first time this has ever happened, and is long overdue and welcome!

Yesterday, at a BBC TV panel interview of the main candidates, we were asked whether we thought the campaign is different in any way with an all women line-up.

It's a funny thing, although as women we obviously view issues from a different experience to men, since the departure of David Bull, the former Tory candidate last Autumn, the campaign's got much more negative and personalised.

I like to think that I campaign on the issues and policies. Unfortunately not all of the debate has been of this standard since David stood down, with periodic personal attacks and negative campaigning becoming more common.

I've pledged to run a clean campaign - which means no personalised attacks - sticking only to relevant issues and policies. However I'm not sure whether all the candidates share my view...

It's interesting, for example, that the ‘non-dom' donor issue (people who opt to be taxed elsewhere rather than in the UK but donate to UK political parties and seek to influence the political system) seems to be on the mind of some.

It looks likely to be just one of those issues that in Brighton some might seek to exploit to distract from their own party's records.

As far as aware, my party in recent years has not accepted any donations from non-doms - i.e. those who avoid paying UK tax.

A while back, Ben Goldsmith donated to the Greens, but he's only a non-dom by virtue of his French father's citizenship and he pays UK tax on all his worldwide income in any case.

I understand every bean he earns is taxed in the UK.

Anyway, back to the campaign: off to the ‘March for Jobs' at The Level, then National Student Pride at Oceana on the seafront after I've finished my stint at the IWD stall. Busy...