A woman's work - Harriet Harman

GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017

**Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards**

Now with a new epilogue for the paperback

'Compelling ... She has guts to spare ... An important story ...
Role model? You bet' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times

'So human and inspiring, and my favourite book of the year so far' Rohan Silva, Guardian

When
Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a
'women's
rate' of pay were the norm, female MPs were a tiny minority - a
woman
couldn't even sign for a mortgage. But, she argues, we should
never
just be grateful that things are better now. There's still more to
do.

In A Woman's Work
Harriet, Britain's
longest-serving female MP, looks at her own life to
see how far we've
come, and where we should go next. This is an
inspiring and refreshingly
honest account of the part she has played
(and the setbacks along the
way) in the movement that transformed
politics and women's lives - from
helping striking female factory
workers to standing for election while
pregnant, from her memories of
her own mother to her success in
reforming the law on maternity rights,
childcare, domestic violence and
getting more women into parliament.
But it is also a call for women
today to get together and continue the
fight for equality. If we don't,
no one else will.