ABSTRACT
It is now possible to draw from the preceding chapters a number of generalisations on the overall theme of this thesis. The first and obvious conclusion from the data presented is that the Communist Party of Great Britain in the years from 1920 to 1939 was a predominantly male organisation. Women members were on average not much more than one in ten of the total and certainly not as much as one in five. Of course, national averages gloss over regional variations which, as the case studies in Chapters Four and Five illustrate, may have been very significant. But the evidence for higher participation of women in the Lancashire region does not negate the fact that taken as a whole the party was overwhelmingly male.
