House of Ladies, 2nd of 3 (14min)

Political journalist Julia Langdon looks at the lives and lively times of three women who have, in their different ways, been mould-breakers and changed the way they do business at the posh end of the Palace of Westminster. This is the 2nd part of the House of Ladies, in which Langdon discusses the changes that she has seen brought about by the introduction of female working peers into the House of Lords -- from trailblazers and mould-breakers to those who have moved House from the Commons. Women were only allowed to take seats in the Commons after the First World War. The Lords remained barred to women until the late 1950s.