By Mary Honeyball
Parliamentary Pioneers : Labour ladies MPs 1918-1945 is a compelling account of the trailblazers who laid the principles for girls having an influential voice in the home of Commons. Written by way of MEP and authoritative spokesperson on women's rights and gender equality Mary Honeyball, the e-book tells the tale of the problems those first MPs championed, the demanding situations they confronted and the lives they led. This doughty team of girls, tricky and individualistic as all of them have been, maintained their independence either of their politics and of their own lives. The election of Labour girls to the home of Commons intended that women representing the operating sessions now joined their male opposite numbers in articulating Labour matters in Parliament, nonetheless a great deal a bastion of Edwardian wealth and privilege. The hallowed Chamber usually echoed with voices that cared passionately approximately social matters, concerns sure to dissatisfied the resident tender gents now not used to such speak. advised during the prism of key modern matters, corresponding to working-class women's struggle for contraception within the Twenties and 30s, this booklet brings to lifestyles the little recognized historical past of those first Labour ladies to take a seat in the home of Commons. reasonable illustration for ladies at Westminster has proved to be a protracted haul. It used to be no longer till the Labour landslide of 1997 that over a hundred Labour ladies have been back to the home of Commons a lot is owed to the unique Parliamentary Pioneers.
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