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Title Page -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: Appointment -- CHAPTER 2: Know your office -- CHAPTER 3: How to cope with your colleagues -- CHAPTER 4: How to run the business -- CHAPTER 5: Looking after a Bill -- CHAPTER 6: Ministers and ex-ministers -- CHAPTER 7: How to deal with the civil service -- CHAPTER 8: What everyone wants -- CHAPTER 9: How to find your information -- CHAPTER 10: How to be mean and nasty -- CHAPTER 11: How to socialise -- CHAPTER 12: How to ignore the big stuff -- CHAPTER 13: How to deal with a crisis -- CHAPTER 14: How to stay sane -- CHAPTER 15: Keeping your constituents happy -- CHAPTER 16: Keeping your members happy -- CHAPTER 17: The top table -- CHAPTER 18: Dealing with the royals -- CHAPTER 19: The Prime Minister -- CHAPTER 20: Dealing with other parties -- CHAPTER 21: How to leave -- Copyright -- Advertisement

An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confront the system from within, and what constraints were imposed on them. She also examines the active role that British women played in Continental Europe, and an important comparative chapter looks at the experience of women in France, Germany, Italy, Australia and the USA

Few things tell us more of a nation's general well-being than the development of the life-expectancy of its citizens; the rising standards of health that they come to demand; and how evenly that improvement is shared throughout society. Helen Jones examines the record of twentieth-century Britain in these respects. She has much heartening progress to record - yet stark inequalities remain. Her book is thus both a review of, and contribution to, the current debates over gender, class and ethnic inequalities in standards of health in Britain today.

There is fundamental recognition that the human rights of women are 'an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights' (Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, para. 18). Violence creates tremendous obstacles to the achievement of rights for women and nation states are obligated to exercise due diligence in the eradication of violence against women and to prevent violence against women wherever it occurs. The following list identifies key documents and resources available at International, European and UK levels. The list includes references to website gateways, documents, campaigns, organisations and publications. The websites provide free access to a wide body of literature and all sites were visited on 11 July 2005 to check that they were current. The list is not comprehensive but is indicative of key materials and services that are easily accessible.