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Until 1997, only five Labour women achieved Cabinet status. Labour Party women faced a triple handicap: they had to be elected, they needed a Labour Party in government and they needed a sympathetic Prime Minister. This chapter looks at the challenges women faced to gain a parliamentary seat and to reach high office. It ends with a discussion of the sources used to tell the story.
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Bartley, P. (2019). Introduction. In: Labour Women in Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14288-9_1
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