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All-women shortlists (AWS) is an affirmative action practice intended to increase the proportion of female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom, allowing only women to stand in particular constituencies for a particular political party. [1] Labour abandoned the shortlist for general election purposes in March 2022. [2]
This is a list of women who are or have been members of the London Assembly. ... Labour: Nicky Gavron: North East & London: 2000: ... All-women shortlist; Parliament ...
Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o ...
All-women shortlists are a method of affirmative action which has been used by the Labour Party to increase the representation of women in Parliament. As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [22]
This is a list of women Senators who have been elected or appointed to Seanad Éireann, ... Labour: 46 1950–1951; 1954–1969; Jane Dowdall: 1951
Labour: Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill [4] 4 February 1961 4 February 1980 Life peeress Labour: Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry [5] 13 April 1962 1981: Resigned from the Labour Party, joined the SDP Life peeress SDP: 1981: 3 March 1988: SDP merged into Liberal Democrats, sat as a crossbencher Crossbench: 3 March 1988 6 ...
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 ...
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a woman, with details of the first woman holder of each office. It is ordered by country, by dates of appointment. It is ordered by country, by dates of appointment.