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Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Sinn Féin: Constance Markievicz: Dublin St Patrick's: 1918 (did not take seat) 1922: Constituency abolished due to establishment of Irish Free State: Conservative: Nancy Astor [a] Plymouth Sutton: 1919: 1945: Retired Liberal: Margaret Wintringham [b] Louth, Lincolnshire: 1921: 1924: Defeated ...
Eastern Kingdom of Women In Tibet, there was Nüguo (Chinese: 女國, lit. "Kingdom of Women"), also known as Dong nüguo (Chinese: 東女國, lit. "Eastern Kingdom of Women"), related to the tribe Sumpa. [62] Several queens regnant of there were recorded in Chinese history books. Supi Mojie (Chinese: 蘇毗末羯) [63] Dajiawa (Chinese ...
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.
Name Constituency Office held Year appointed NI Women's Coalition: Jane Morrice: North Down: Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly: 1998 Sinn Féin: Caitríona Ruane: South Down: Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly: 2016 Sinn Féin: Carál Ní Chuilín: Belfast North: Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern ...
Name Year joined Year left Type of peerage Labour: Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger [a] 8 August 1958 11 July 1988 Life peeress: Crossbench: Stella Isaacs, Baroness Swanborough [b] 22 September 1958 22 May 1971 Life peeress Conservative: Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood: 26 September 1958 3 January 1994 Life peeress ...
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 ...
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 ...
Muslim feminist, professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords [121] 1940–1999: Leila Ahmed: Egypt: 1940 – Writer on Islamic feminism [122] 1940–1999: Sara Ahmed: United Kingdom: 1969 – British-Australian academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and ...