Abstract
The “Mother of All Parliaments” is overwhelmingly male (and pale): 128 women MPs—just one in five of all members of the UK parliament—were elected at the 2005 general election. Moreover, the upward trend in women’s representation at Westminster began only in the mid-to-late 1980s and it was not until the 1997 general election that a sea change occurred. At that election, the numbers of women in Parliament doubled overnight—from 60 to 120.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Women and Legislative Representation |
| Subtitle of host publication | Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Sex Quotas |
| Editors | Manon Tremblay |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 41-54 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780230610378 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780230603783, 978-1-137-28070-1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |