Women of the Foreign Office (eBook)

Britain's First Female Ambassadors

Elizabeth Warburton, Richard Warburton (Autoren)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9708-9 (ISBN)

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Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and yet Britain's first official female ambassador did not take up her position until 1976. Many obstacles lay between a capable, educated woman and the fulfilment of her potential. Here, Elizabeth and Richard Warburton cast a detailed eye over the advancement of women in the Foreign Office, as diplomats, ambassadors, ministers and Foreign Secretary. Leaving no stone unturned, they discuss the culturally conservative, closed pillar of the Foreign Office in the context of the times, and of the development of women's rights both in the UK and across the first world. Supported by first-person accounts, they explore the stories of those who successfully broke through the constraints of convention, prejudice and law, and why.

Elizabeth J. Warburton is a former employee of HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office, after which she became a researcher for print and broadcast media. She is the niece of the first British female ambassador Dame Anne Warburton DCVO CMG.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Ambassadors • Biographies • Britain's First Female Ambassadors • Britains First Female Ambassadors • Britain's First Female Ambassadors, Britains First Female Ambassadors, diplomacy, diplomats, ambassadors, women's rights, foreign and commonwealth office, FCO, foreign office, dame anne warburton, the establishment, UK, biographies, political history, equality, female diplomats • choose your weapons • christopher meyer • Condoleezza Rice • dame anne warburton • dame barbara salt, eleanor emery, margaret beckett, foreign secretary, karen pierce, matthew parris, parting shots, douglas hurt, choose your weapons, the naked diplomat, tom fletcher, ever the diplomat, sherard cowper-coles, foreign office mandarin, christopher meyer, dc confidential • dc confidential|getting our way • Diplomacy • diplomats • douglas hurt • eleanor emery • Equality • ever the diplomat • FCO • female diplomats|dame barbara salt • Foreign and Commonwealth Office • Foreign Office • foreign office mandarin • Foreign Secretary • getting our way, what diplomats do, madeleine Albright, condoleezza rice, history of diplomacy, women’s suffrage • history of diplomacy • karen pierce • Madeleine Albright • Margaret Beckett • matthew parris • parting shots • Political History • sherard cowper-coles • The Establishment • the naked diplomat • Tom Fletcher • UK • what diplomats do • women's rights • women’s suffrage
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-9708-7 / 0750997087
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9708-9 / 9780750997089