ER
pressured the Palestine Commission
to appoint a woman to its ranks, though William Ormsby-Gore
, Colonial Governor of Palestine, resisted this proposal, saying that he did not think its adoption would be practical.
qtd. in
Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press, 1978.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Antonia Fraser
This book (which covers the span from the queen of its title
to the recent or current regimes of Margaret Thatcher
, Golda Meir
, and Indira Gandhi
) looks historically at the inbuilt contradictions...
Travel
Una Marson
At the invitaion of Golda Meir
, UM
travelled to Israel to attend a seminar for women leaders in Haifa followed by a conference in Jerusalem on the role of women in peace and development.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
214, 216
Timeline
1928: Golda Meir became secretary of the Women's...