The first time the story of women's progressive politics over the past thirty years has been told - by someone at the forefront of the movement.
Harriet Harman was elected as Labour MP for Peckham in 1982. Joining a House of Commons which was 97% male, she had three children while in Parliament. She has been politics' most prominent champion for women's rights, introducing the National Childcare Strategy, the Equality Act and changing the law on domestic violence. She was the first woman to represent the Labour Party at Prime Minister's Questions.
A personal memoir but also the story of women in politics and
public life. Since Harriet entered parliament in 1982 pregnant
with her first child she has seen the number of women MPs
increase to more than 200. Many of us are there because of her
*New Statesman*
A Woman's Work is a fantastic and inspiring read which I would
recommend to anyone interested in overcoming prejudice and
promoting fairness. Over her 35 year career in Parliament no-one
has fought harder or more effectively for gender equality than
Harriet Harman. She is an outstanding role model
*John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons*
If I had a teenage daughter, especially one who didn't see the
point of politics, this is the book I'd buy her. Chatty, accessible
and occasionally eye-opening, it's a history of the things
conventional political memoirs miss out - written by someone who
built a career on things conventional politicians missed out ... [A
Woman's Work is] a lively account of the one subject most political
memoir writers know next to nothing about: how it felt to be a
woman working in one of the least forgiving (and when she was
elected in 1982, most macho) careers around
*Guardian*
Compelling ... She has guts to spare and is interesting on the
difficulties of a work-life balance in parliament ... Her own
judgments on her performance are commendably unsparing ... An
important story ... Role model? You bet
*Sunday Times*
The truth about Harriet, not often acknowledged, is that she is
that rare politician who has consistently stood up to the powers
that be, both Labour and in other parties. This book is a primer in
what it takes to do that ... If I ever had doubts about Harriet's
total devotion to the cause, I don't now ... There are wonderful
vignettes of the clash between family and career ... It says
everything that this book ends with Harriet offering us her ten top
tips for the feminist struggle. The title is A Woman's Work and, as
we know and especially for Harriet, it's never done
*The Times*
A painfully honest memoir ... where lesser politicians would have
slunk from public gaze, Harman reacted by getting tougher
*Sunday Telegraph*
Countless blows have tempered Harman into something fearless and
indestructible. Hell, why shouldn't this be her prime?
*The Times*
Fantastic - I can't recommend it highly enough
*Open Labour*
You can't go wrong with Harriet Harman's wonderful autobiography A
Woman's Work - it's just so human and inspiring, and my favourite
book of the year so far.
*Observer*
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