1990 |
Women in the Royal Navy are allowed to go to sea for the first time, although they are not allowed on submarines or to be deep sea divers.Ìý |
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1990 |
Independent taxation for women is introduced. For the first time married women are taxed separately from their husbands.Ìý |
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1990 |
is elected the first woman President of Ireland.ÌýÌý |
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1990 |
Tracey Edwards captains the first all-woman team in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. |
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1991 |
becomes the first woman to head MI5. |
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1991 |
Embryologist, Dr Anne McLaren becomes the first woman officer of the Royal Society as Foreign Secretary.Ìý |
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1991 |
blasts off into space as Britain 's first astronaut. |
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1991 |
is the first black woman to become a QC.Ìý |
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1991 |
Olympic coach, Dame Marea Hartman becomes the first woman president of the Amateur Athletic Association.Ìý |
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1991 |
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese human rights activist, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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1991 |
Gail Rebuck becomes Chief Executive of Random House UK. By 1999 she is head of the entire Random House group responsible for over 60m books worldwide. |
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1991 |
Edith Cresson became France's first female Prime Minister. |
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1991 |
Begum Khaleda Zia becomes Bangladesh's first woman Prime Minister. |
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1991 |
Opportunity 2000 is launched to push for more women in commerce and public life. The Â鶹Éç is one of the first organisations to sign up.ÌýÌý |
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1992 |
Flight Lieutenant Jo Salter qualifies as the first fast-jet pilot, flying Tornados. |
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1991 |
Salisbury becomes the first cathedral to break with tradition and forms an all-girl choir.ÌýÌýÌý |
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1992 |
The 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women |
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1992 |
Barbara Mills, becomes the first woman Director of Public Prosecutions. |
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1992 |
Jackie Brambles becomes the first female daytime DJ on Radio 1. |
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1992 |
Margaret Beckett is briefly the leader of the Labour party on the death of John Smith. |
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1992 |
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1993 |
Rebecca Stephens is the first British woman to reach the summit of Everest. (Alison Hargreaves made it to the top without Oxygen in 1995, but died on K2 later the same year.) |
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1993 |
28 April is the first Take Our Daughters to Work Day in the USA. It is taken up the following year in the UK. |
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1994 |
The government introduces "Changing Childhood" to make maternity services more focused on the individual woman.Ìý |
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1994 |
The WRAF is integrated into RAF.Ìý |
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1994 |
The Church of England ordains its firstÌý at Bristol Cathedral. Thirty two women are ordained. |
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1994 |
A House of Lords ruling gives equal rights to part-time workers. |
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1994 |
Dr Carole Jordan is elected the first woman president of the Royal Astronomical Society.Ìý |
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1994 |
As part of the Criminal Justice Act marital rape is declared illegal in the UK. |
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1995 |
Women from 185 countries meet in Beijing in China for the Fourth World Conference on Women sponsored by the United Nations. |
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1995 |
Laura Davies is the first British woman to be ranked number one golf player in the world.Ìý |
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1995 |
Pauline Clare is appointed Chief Constable for Lancashire, the first woman to hold this senior rank. |
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1995 |
Rugby's inner sanctum at Twickenham is opened to women. |
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1995 |
Women win the right to compete in the Vale of Belvoir Conker Championship after taking their protest to the European parliament.Ìý |
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1995 |
On 13 May English mountaineer Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest alone and without oxygen. |
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1995 |
On 13 August English mountaineer Alison Hargreaves was killed during a storm while descending K2. K2 is the world's second highest mountain and the most difficult to climb. She had reached the summit a few hours previously. |
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1996 |
The RAF appoint Cynthia Fowler the their first woman Air Commodore. |
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1996 |
The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition is founded. In June 1998, two members are returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly. |
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1997 |
For the first time some army frontline jobs in the Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers are opened to women. However the move stopped short of allowing female military personnel to be infantry soldiers, tank crew or submariners. |
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1997 |
The England women's cricket team compete in trousers for the first time. |
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1997 |
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1997 |
Zoe Ball takes over on Radio 1 Breakfast Show, the first woman to present the top slot. |
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1997 |
The adoption of women-only shortlists by the Labour Party helps ensure a record number of women MPs - 120 - are returned to parliament in the May General Election. Women only short-lists were then declared illegal. |
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1997 |
heads the first all-woman expedition to the North Pole. SheÌýis also one of five women to reach the South Pole in 2000. |
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1997 |
Mary Robinson is appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the highest rank any woman has held in the UN. |
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1997 |
Marjorie Scardino becomes the first woman to head a FTSE 100 company when she takes the top job at the media company Pearson. |
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1998 |
Rosie Boycott is appointed editor of The Independent, the first woman to be editor of a weekday broadsheet. |
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1998 |
The Marylebone Cricket Club better known as the MCCÌýadmits its first women members. After campaigning for many years against the ban, Rachel Heyhoe Flint is among the first ten to be admitted. |
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1999 |
After 902 years Winchester Cathedral allows an all-girl choir to sing evensong. |
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1999 |
A new law on parental leave enables both men and women to take up to 13 weeks off to care for children aged under five. |
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1999 |
Patricia Purves is appointed the army's first woman brigadier. |
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1999 |
Merlyn Lowther is appointed Chief Cashier at the Bank of England. Her signature would now be the one on all bank notes. |
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