Women MPs
When Queen Victoria was alive, women did not even have the right to vote and there were many protests. One woman even died when she ran in front of a race horse in 1913. All women were given the vote at last in 1928. The first woman to be elected to the House of Commons in British Parliament was Nancy Astor in 1919. These days there are 144 female MPs and there are 504 male MPs, so we see that the majority of MPs are still men. In fact only 22 per cent of MPs are women. The first woman Minister was Margaret Bond field in 1924, who was Under Secretary in the Ministry of Labour. Nowadays there are more female Ministers than there used to be. In 1979 Margaret Thatcher made history by becoming the first female Prime Minister in the history of United Kingdom and she remained in office until 1990. Although she ran the country, there were still fewer women MPs than men, However women in Parliament is now an everyday part of life in Britain
