ABSTRACT
Born: March 17, 1873; Furnam, Somerset, England Died: June 16, 1953; Sanderstead, Surrey, England Areas of Achievement: Government, trade union-
ism, and social reform Contribution: From humble shop assistant, Bond-
field became assistant secretary of the Shop Assistants' Union and chair of the Adult Suffrage Society. Elected to Parliament from Northampton in 1923, she became the first woman chair of the Trades Union Congress in that same year, and the first woman in a British cabinet, in 1929 as minister of labour.
