Women in History

MARGARET THATCHER (by Noelia Fernández)

Margaret was born in Grantham, in 1925. She was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.
In 1975 she became Leader of the Conservative Party and then, the first woman to head a major UK political party.
Following the 1979 general election, she became Britain's first female Prime Minister. Thatcher's popularity sank amid recession and high unemployment, although economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support and she was re-elected in 1983.