Women of Westminster : the MPs who changed politics
Reeves, Rachel, 1979-2020
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In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Her achievement was all the more remarkable given that women had only been entitled to vote for just over a year. In the past 100 years, a total of 491 women have been elected to Parliament. Yet it was not until 2016 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament. The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable - Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle's fight for equal pay. In this book, Rachel Reeves brings forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the many battles fought by the Women of Westminster, from 1919 to 2019.
Main title:
Women of Westminster : the MPs who changed politics / Rachel Reeves.
Author:
Reeves, Rachel, 1979-, author
Edition:
Fully updated and revised paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Caravel, 2020.
Collation:
xxii, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781448217854 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
328.09252328.0925328.092 REEV328.09252 REE328.092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1163044
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