Angela Rayner, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the Labour conference in October 2023.
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The newly elected parliament includes 264 women, passing 40% for the first time.
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The Equality Act does not explicitly state what a man or woman is, or cover non-binary identities.
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Girls growing up in very different circumstances navigated the possibilities and pitfalls of the 1960s and early 1970s in very different ways.
Cranogwen oedd enw barddol Sarah Jane Rees.
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Roedd Cranogwen yn arloeswraig oherwydd iddi gyflawni gymaint yn ystod oes Fictoria, sef cyfnod lle nad oedd gan ferched lawer o hawliau.
Sarah Jane Rees was also known as Cranogwen.
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Cranogwen was a trailblazer who challenged expectations of women during the Victorian era.
A scale model of a statue dedicated to Lady Rhondda has been revealed by the sculptor, Jane Robbins.
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Lady Rhondda was a suffragette, a business leader and an editor. A statue of her is expected to be revealed in Newport, south Wales, next year.
Glasgow’s harbour on the River Clyde was an artery of the industrial revolution.
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Women in the textile factories of 19th-century Glasgow faced terrible working conditions. In fighting for their rights, they prepared the ground for feminists today.
President of the Married Women’s Association Edith Summerskill MP (left) and three other MPs deliver a petition supporting equal pay for women to the House of Commons in March 1954.
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These pioneering women were opposed in their day and have long been ignored by history. UK Family law, however, still attests to the influence they wrought.