Margaret Thatcher Research Paper

Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first female Prime Minister who had served from 1979 to 1990. The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep, depicts Thatcher’s late-life struggle with dementia, as she remembers her early life and her political career. From the movie we can tell that she was a very strong and powerful woman who was devoted to her career. In her late eighties she feels regret since she had mainly focused on her political career and did not really care about her family. She had made several decisions that effected Britain’s image worldwide. For example she successfully protected the Falkland Islands against Argentina in 1982. Even though the movie demonstrates many historical events, parts of the movie were historically inaccurate.

members in her family were Supreme Court judges and this could have inspired her to be a jurist.

Margaret Louise Higgins, who later became Margaret Higgins Sange, was born on September 14, 1879 In Corning, New York. She was a birth control activist,nurse, and sex educator. Margaret’s parents were Michael Hennessey Higgins, an Irish stonemason and Anna Purcell a catholic Irish-American. Margaret’s mother Anne and her family immigrated to canada when she was young. Margaret’s father Michael moved to America and enlisted into the US army during the Civil War at the age of15. Margaret’s father was also a catholic turned atheist and also an activist for woman’s suffrage. Anne Higgins went through 18 pregnancies and only 11 of her children were born alive. Margaret was the sixth child of eleven. She spent a lot of her childhood years helping with household chores and also had the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings.

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She began taking the lead on her campus by becoming a Vice President in her sorority Alpha Phi. She ventured into Student Government as a Senator and took on many roles within her two years and successfully passed a spending amendment to law with the fiscal policy in the spring of 2016.

Margaret Floy Washburn was born on July 25, 1871 in New York City to parents Reverend Francis and Elizabeth Floy Washburn. She was born in a time when women were not allowed to display any type of power, higher reasoning, or desire for higher education. At the age of seven, she began her educational journey in the home of a retired Presbyterian minister who lived next door to her family. In 1886, she graduated from high school at the young age of 15 years old. Upon completion of high school, she attended Vassar College where she studied Chemistry and French. However, by the time she had graduated her educational interests had changed to philosophy and science, which

Becoming involved in politics was not the initial goal that Shirley was striving for. It was not until she was in college in which she first became interested in the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League. She was impressed with a man named Hodder, who represented the Bedford- Stuyvesant Political League, and his speeches that supported the black community. He sparked her interest in politics and from then on Shirley was in and out of the political spotlight (Metcalf 118).

As a child Ruth was well educated. During her time as a student, there were prejudices against women learning, which she ignored and continued to go to school. After high school she went to Cornell. This is where she met her husband, Martin D. Ginsburg. At Cornell, she earned a bachelor of arts in government and graduated one of the highest ranking females in her class. This prompted the continuation of her education. She went on to Harvard Law School where she was one of the few women in her class. Then she went to Columbia Law School where she graduated tied for first in her class.

When she became a First Lady, she wanted to get involve in public life; she had her own ideology on different issues as she did not always agree with her husband´s political decisions. She wrote in a newspaper column, hosted a radio show, and hold presses conferences. She was a political leader herself even though before become First Lady; during World War I she worked for the American Red Cross showing her humanitarian side too. In 1945, when her husband passed away, the new president Harry Truman offered her a position as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

Margaret Thatcher was said to be the greatest British Prime Minister of the 20th century (Conservative, 1979 - 1990). Britain's first female prime minister came to power with the country descending into industrial and economic chaos. A relatively inexperienced politician, she adopted a personal style of indomitable self-confidence and brooked no weakness in herself or her colleagues. Derisively dubbed the 'Iron Lady' by the Soviet press, she wore the moniker with pride. Her government's free-market policies included trade liberalisation, deregulation, sweeping privatisation, breaking the power of the unions, focus on the individual and the creation of an 'enterprise culture'. 'Thatcherism' has had a profound and lasting economic and social impact on Britain, and still sharply divides opinion to this day. The first prime minister to serve three consecutive terms (including two 'landslide' victories) and she was eventually toppled by her own party following the disastrous imposition of a 'poll tax'. Nonetheless, she is generally considered to be one of the best peacetime prime ministers of the 20th

William attended both Oxford and Yale Universities, in order to earn a degree in Law. Where he fell in love with a lady named Hillary Rodham, and married her not long after in 1975, soon both acquired a degree in Law.

Her father was a political writer and her mother was a

This allowed her to learn more about issues such as civil rights, women's rights, and the Vietnam War because she wasn't as exposed to these issues at her high school. She was against the Vietnam War, and she was pro civil rights and pro women's rights, which are traits that are more commonly found in Democrats. This convinced her that she should become a Democrat. She applied for Harvard and Yale, and she got accepted into both. She had a hard time make the decision on where to go, but she went to Yale after she heard a professor comment on there already being too many women there. She got a degree in Law because she believed that the best way to work towards social justice was through public service and politics. Her focus was on Family Law. At Yale, she met Bill Clinton and started dating

She studied law and became president of the

In 1958 Dole graduated from Duke University with a degree in political science, and she then went on to earn her master’s degree in education from Harvard in 1960 (Clift and Brazaitis 152). Shortly after that she attended Harvard Law School which had only 23 other women in her class out of 550 students (152). Following the completion of her education, Dole began working for the White House Office of Consumer Affairs in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations (Gutgold 109). Other notable positions she held during her career include serving for a time as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan, as the U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George H. W. Bush, and as the President of the American Red Cross (Gutgold 109-110). When considering the period in which she grew up, she truly was an accomplished woman.