Irene Ward

Standard Name: Ward, Irene

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27 October 1931

Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives to the British Parliament , where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.

Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.

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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 June 1940

The Womanpower Committee (WPC) was formed, with Irene Ward as chairman, with the purpose of influencing government policy.

Smith, Harold L. “The Womanpower Problem in Britain During the Second World War”. The Historical Journal, Vol.

, No. 4, Dec. 1984, pp. 925-45.

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Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.

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