Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady

As the first (and so far only) female Prime Minister of the UK, Baroness Margaret Hilda Thatcher was loved by some, disliked by others and immortalized on the big screen with an Oscar-winning performance by Meryl Streep. Nicknamed the “Iron Lady” for her tenacity in both personal and political actions, Thatcher overcame even her own initial uncertainties after telling a reporter before her election that she didn’t think she’d live to see a female Prime Minister take office. Richard Carr, a political scientist at Anglia Ruskin University, had this to say of Thatcher, who passed away today at the age of 87:

Despite her controversial reception, President Obama pointed out today that because of Thatcher’s honorable achievements, she taught “our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.” So in honor of Baroness Thatcher and all of the other women out there plowing through uncertainties, get out there and break some (figurative) glass!

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