Titlebook: Labour Women in Power; Cabinet Ministers in Paula Bartley Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licens

exostosis

,In the Cabinet and Out of Labour, 1974–2018,umer Protection and next as Secretary of State for Education. In 1979, Labour lost the election and Williams lost her seat, the only Cabinet Minister to do so. As the Labour Party drifted to the left, Shirley Williams lost confidence in it. In 1981, she resigned from the party and helped create the

Infelicity

Anonymous

多山

,The First Female Minister of Education, 1945–1947,hose who aimed to go to university. She was only in the post for a short time because she died in 1947; Attlee did not appoint another woman to his Cabinet. The chapter concludes with an assessment of her role in politics.

LURE

engender

,The First Woman Paymaster General and Beyond, 1968–1991,gned the Lomé agreement and focussed on agricultural development. When Labour lost the 1979 election, Judith Hart became embroiled in the struggle against Militant, a Trotskyist group. The chapter concludes with an assessment of her political life.

MAUVE

,In the Cabinet and Out of Labour, 1974–2018,Social Democratic Party. This chapter examines her role as Cabinet Minister and chart Williams’ disillusion with the party she had joined as a teenager. It concludes with a discussion of her political life.

削减

,The Mighty Atom: Ellen Wilkinson, 1891–1945,with known spies and conflicts with the Labour Party, particularly over her involvement in anti-fascism. During the Second World War, she became a junior Minister which helped establish her political respectability.

共和国

jet-lag

,A Woman in a Man’s World: Margaret Bondfield’s Early Career, 1873–1929, in the largely male trade union movement and how that in turn helped her to become an MP and later a Minister. Margaret Bondfield held strong religious convictions, and this chapter demonstrates how these influenced her politics.