Harriet Harman
Auteur van A Woman's Work
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Algemene kennis
- Officiƫle naam
- Harman, Harriet Ruth
- Geboortedatum
- 1950-07-30
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- England
- Geboorteplaats
- Marylebone, London, England (Harley Street)
- Woonplaatsen
- Herne Hill, London, England
Suffolk, England (holiday home) - Opleiding
- York University (Goodricke College|politics|BA)
- Beroepen
- solicitor
politician
Member of Parliament (Peckham|1982-1997|Camberwell and Peckham|1997|to date|2022)
feminist - Relaties
- Chamberlain, Joseph (great-great uncle)
Chamberlain, Austen (cousin once removed)
Chamberlain, Neville (cousin once removed)
Billington, Rachel (cousin)
Fraser, Antonia (cousin)
Pakenham, Thomas (cousin) (toon alle 7)
Dromey, Jack (husband|1982-2022|his death) - Organisaties
- Brent Law Centre (solicitor)
National Council for Civil Liberties (legal officer|1978-1982)
Labour Party (a Shadow Social Services minister|1984|a Shadow Health minister|1987|Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury|1992-1994|Shadow Employment Secretary|1994-1995|Shadow Health Secretary|1995-1996|Shadow Social Security Secretary|1996-1997|Secretary of State for Social Security|1997|Minister for Women|1997|Solicitor General|2001) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Queen's Counsel (courtesy|2001)
Borough of Southwark (freedom|2021)
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Vine Reads (1)
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 5
- Leden
- 50
- Populariteit
- #316,248
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 8
Her supportive husband and her three children appear little in this book, and yet her struggle to combine her combative professional life with her relationship with them is clearly central to her story, and to her understanding of the lives of women from all levels of society. It's clear that many women recognised her constant battles on our behalf, even when the Parliamentary Labour Party did not necessarily do so.
Harriet Harman kept no diaries, so this book is free of obsessive day-to-day minutiae. But it's a lively and compelling account of a woman struggling to prosper professionally, and to change the lives of women in that most macho of environments, the House of Commons.
Even if you don't share her political views, read this book for an overview of social reform campaigning over the last half century. You may even find yourself grateful to her, and to women like her, for taking on the battles she has fought and often won.
'If you are not having arguments, you are not making a difference.'
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