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April 11, 2013
Margaret Thatcher paved the way for us female Tory MPs

Margaret Thatcher didn’t smash the political glass ceiling. She refused to acknowledge its existence and my female Conservative colleagues and I are the beneficiaries of her fearless approach, writes Amber Rudd.

 

April 10, 2013
What did Margaret Thatcher do for women?

What did Margaret Thatcher do for women? Nothing. I faced her properly for the first time in the mid-1980s, although I had covered her progresses around the south of England for some years as a reporter for BBC South and subsequently for Newsnight.

April 8, 2013
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female PM, dead at 87

London (CNN) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87.

March 27, 2013
Mary Robinson Doesn't Need to Be Popular, Ireland

Interview with Ireland's first female President.

March 22, 2013
Women voted 75 years before they were legally allowed to in 1918, UK

A new document has surfaced which shows British women, of all classes, voting in 1843, some 75 years before they received the parliamentary franchise in 1918. History professor, Sarah Richardson, explains what this discovery means and how it was possible.

March 20, 2013
The Party Where Being a Woman Is Political - By Choice, UK

It's a great time for women, isn't it?

March 18, 2013
More women in politics - how? , Scotland
March 15, 2013
BGIPU hosting landmark visit of the Speaker of the Shura Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The Chairman of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (BGIPU), Mr Robert Walter

March 15, 2013
Weak Odds for Women in Britain

Could the next British prime minister be a woman? A surge of rumors in Parliament means it looks marginally more plausible this week than it did last week.