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Women of Westminster - The MPs who Changed Politics (Hardcover)
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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 (and even then only some 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 to Harriet
Harman's recent legislation on the gender pay gap. Yet the stories
of so many women MPs have too often been overlooked in political
histories. 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.
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