House of Commons.She was ridiculed in the press, harassed in public and mocked by fellow politicians for the determined stance she took on a wide range of issues to advance women’s rights. “We in parliament, who believe in making life better for women … believe that our aims must be translated into laws, which will be binding not merely on the present government but on future governments,” she told the Commons in 1975, when introducing an ill-fated private member’s bill to require equal representation for women in government appointments to public bodies.