how role of women has changed in society over a period of last 150 years.(Detail answer)important
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From the election of the first female MP Nancy Astor in 1919, women have been breaking new ground in government. We’ve had two female prime ministers, the first female Scottish minister, and there are currently more female MPs in parliament than ever before. Yet women still only make up 29% of all MPs. While this is far from an ideal 50/50 (or greater) scenario, it’s encouraging that young girls can now see women like them in positions of power – anyone remember post-referendum, when for a brief period all of the major parties (bar one) were headed by a female MP? Encouragingly, organisations such as 50/50 parliamentand the Women’s Equality Party are working to address that imbalance. Iceland on the other hand are miles ahead of us – women make up almost 50% of their MPS, while in Rwanda men are in the minority with women outnumbering them by a 61/39% split in the lower houseBritish women gained access to the contraceptive pill in 1961 and to be honest, we’ve never looked back. For the first time ever women could finally be in control of their bodies, able to have children (and consequently give up work) as and when they liked. The 60s was also a defining decade for women’s rights as abortion became legal in the UK. Later we gained access to the morning-after-pill and there are now many contraceptive options open to women – a huge change from 100 years ago when a woman’s options were basically condoms, a diaphragm or the rhythm method.Back in the 1900s a woman’s employment options were limited – career orientated women could expect to be employed as a domestic servant, teacher, nurse or dressmaker. High-earning, traditionally ‘male’ professions were simply not welcoming to women – the first woman to ever train as a doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, faced huge obstacles attracting patients – even female ones. Because the majority of Victorian women relied on a husband for financial support, they were effectively trapped in their marriages. Unmarried women, or spinsters, were socially shunned and pitied. Today, women have broke into boardrooms, combat zones, businesses. Is our work done? No. There are currently just seven women bosses of FTSE 100 companies. BUT we have made big gains, and we will keep on making them.