23 October 1903
Voteless women workers seek parliamentary representation: suffragists announce intention to send their own nominee to the House of Commons.
2 December 1919
The House of Commons welcomes its first female member: Lady Astor takes her seat in the House.
13 February 1920
More women wanted in parliament: for the first time leading men of all political parties are united in saying that more women are needed.
28 June 1922
No ladies in the House of Lords: the second best club in Europe remains closed to women who will have to wait for that right until 1958.
22 July 1960
The world’s first woman prime minister: Mrs Sirima Bandaranaike, leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, made history today when she became the world’s only woman Prime Minister.
3 August 1962
Eleanor Roosevelt’s autobiography: in the United Kingdom almost everyone looks on her as a good woman while back home in the US the opposite is true.
12 February 1975
Changes at the top of the Conservative Party: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Tory leader and four years later will be the first British woman prime minister.
22 April 2007
Blair’s Babes: When Labour swept into power in 1997, nearly one in four of its new MPs was a woman. As Tony Blair prepares to depart, 10 of those women talk frankly about life in the Commons.
19 January 2018
New Zealand prime minister pregnant: Jacinda Ardern announces she is expecting her first child. In 1990, Pakistan’s then prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, gave birth to a daughter, in what was said to be a first for an elected world leader.
4 May 2018
Hillary Clinton candidacy: the communications director who ran Clinton’s 2016 US election campaign says America was not ready for a woman in the White House – but it soon will be.
14 December 2018
209 female MPs by 209 female photographers – in pictures.
