Women's Consultative Committee

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett called this decision simply scandalous.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Nancy, Lady Astor , chair of the Consultative Committee of Women's Organizations
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
From 1921 to 1924, MHVR was the president of the National Women Citizen's Association . During this decade, she was also an executive member of the Women's Consultative Committee , chaired by Nancy, Lady Astor

Timeline

March 1941
The Women's Consultative Committee was established to advise Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin on matters of policy affecting women.