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Female Principal Speaker 1992 1993 Major: Jan Clark: Female Principal Speaker 1993 1995 Peg Alexander: Female Principal Speaker 1995 1997 Jean Lambert (b. 1950) Female Principal Speaker 1998 1999 Blair: Margaret Wright (1940–2012) Female Principal Speaker 1999 2003 Caroline Lucas (b. 1960) Female Principal Speaker 2003 24 November 2006 Siân ...
This list shows women who have been elected as members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union and other British devolved assemblies, as well as those elected to Mayoral positions.
Sixty-eight women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand ...
Party Portrait Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Conservative: Frances Davidson [x]: Hemel Hempstead: 1937: 1959: Retired Labour: Agnes Hardie [y]: Glasgow Springburn
This is a list of current and former female monarchs regardless of title, including queens regnant, empresses regnant, pharaohs and monarchs by other titles (grand duchess, princess, etc.). Consorts, such queens consort (i.e. spouses of male monarchs) are not included, see list of current consorts of sovereigns.
The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. [1] In more modern times concerns about the under-representation of women led the Labour Party to introduce and, decades later, abandon all-women short lists , something which was later held to breach ...
This is a list of women who have been sat as members of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Unless stated otherwise the reason for leaving the Lords is death. Unless stated otherwise the reason for leaving the Lords is death.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.