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    Margaret Bondfield was the first female cabinet minister and first woman privy counsellor in Britain when she was appointed Minister of Labour in 1929. Born in humble circumstances, she received limited education but became an active trades unionist and held union office from 1898. She helped found the Women's Labour League in 1906 and was chair of the Adult Suffrage Society, working for women's rights though as a socialist rather than suffragette. Elected to parliament in 1923, she served as a junior minister in 1924 before her term in the 1929-1931 cabinet, where she faced economic crises and antagonized some in her party, leaving parliament in 1931.

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    Margaret Bondfield was the first female cabinet minister and first woman privy counsellor in Britain when she was appointed Minister of Labour in 1929. Born in humble circumstances, she received limited education but became an active trades unionist and held union office from 1898. She helped found the Women's Labour League in 1906 and was chair of the Adult Suffrage Society, working for women's rights though as a socialist rather than suffragette. Elected to parliament in 1923, she served as a junior minister in 1924 before her term in the 1929-1931 cabinet, where she faced economic crises and antagonized some in her party, leaving parliament in 1931.

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    Margaret Bondfield (18731953) was a BritishLabour politician, trades unionist and women's rights

    activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor,
    when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 192931. Bondfield was
    born in humble circumstances and received limited formal education. Beginning as a shopworker
    in Brighton and London, she was an active trades unionist and held union office from 1898.
    Bondfield helped to found the Women's Labour League in 1906, and was chair of the Adult Suffrage
    Society. She was a socialist rather than a suffragette, which divided her from some factions in the
    women's movement. She was first elected to parliament in 1923, and was a junior minister in
    the Labour government of 1924. Her term in the cabinet was overshadowed by the economic crises
    that beset the 192931 Labour ministry, and her actions in office antagonised many in the Labour
    Party. She left parliament in 1931, but continued in quiet public service until shortly before her death

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