"Women's Progress to Equality - we've won the arguments now it's time to change the reality"
Harriet Harman was elected Labour MP for Peckham in 1982. She was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2007-2015, was appointed Shadow Deputy Prime Minister 2010-2015 and has twice served as Interim Labour Leader in 2010 and 2015. She has been in politics’ a prominent champion for women’s rights and as a minister in the Labour Government, introducing the National Childcare Strategy and the Equality Act, changing the law on domestic violence and increasing female representation. The first women Labour politician to answer Prime Minister’s Questions. In 2017 she became the longest serving woman MP.
Date: 27 April 2018, 17:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium
Speaker: The Rt. Hon Harriet Harman, QC MP.
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Part of: Mansfield Lectures Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Andreia Gomes Da Costa Leite