Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young, was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher. She became a councillor for Oxford City Council in 1957 and was leader by 1967.

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  • Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young, was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher. She became a councillor for Oxford City Council in 1957 and was leader by 1967. Not long after she was made a peer on the advice of Edward Heath, as Baroness Young, of Farnworth in the County Palatine of Lancaster. As the Lady Young she was appointed Leader of the House of Lords, and sat on the boards of large corporations such as NatWest and Marks and Spencer. In later life she was mainly known for her staunch opposition to Gay Rights. She worked to try to stop legislation going through that would allow unmarried couples (including gay men and women) to adopt children, and also led campaigns in the House of Lords to prevent equalisation of the age of consent for homosexual men with that of heterosexuals, and also fought the repeal of Section 28. She was ultimately defeated on all counts. Although she managed to delay the repeal of Section 28 in England and Wales in 2000, Section 28 was finally removed from the statute book in 2003. She died at the age of 75 following a long battle with cancer. Following her death, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell declared that she had "poisoned society with prejudice and intolerance" and that "future historians will rank her alongside the defenders of apartheid. She supported homophobic discrimination to the last. " But Tim Montgomerie, then Chairman of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, said that "Baroness Young led a life of great service to Christian causes. She defended marriage and the family against an onslaught of damaging legislation in recent years. Unlike many of today's politicians and churchleaders, she refused to accept that the breakdown of the family was inevitable and she invested every effort into standing up for the interests of vulnerable children. If only more Christians followed her example and sought political office, the country would, perhaps, not face the same difficulties that it does. She will be sadly missed..."
  • Janet Mary Young, baronowa Young, brytyjska polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, pierwsza kobieta, która przewodniczyła Izbie Lordów, jedyna kobieta którą premier Margaret Thatcher powołała do swojego gabinetu. Urodziła się jako Janet Mary Baker, córka Johna Bakera i Phyllis Hancock. Wykształcenie odebrała w Headington School w Oksfordzie, Mt. Holyoke College w Massachusetts oraz w St Anne's College na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim. W 1950 r. poślubił dr Geoffreya Younga i miała z nim trzy córki. Karierę polityczną zaczynała w radzie miasta Oksford. Została wybrana do rady w 1957 r. , a w 1967 r. została jej przewodniczącą. W 1971 r. została na wniosek premiera Edwarda Heatha kreowana parem dożywotnim jako baronowa Young i zasiadła w Izbie Lordów. W 1972 r. został Lordem-in-Waiting. W 1973 r. objęła stanowisko podsekretarza stanu w ministerstwie środowiska. W latach 1979-1981 piastowała analogiczne stanowisko w departamencie edukacji i nauki. W 1981 r. została przewodniczącą Izby oraz Kanclerzem Księstwa Lancaster. W 1982 r. została Lordem Tajnej Pieczęci, pozostając jednocześnie na stanowisku przewodniczącego. W gabinecie zasiadała do 1983 r. W późniejszych latach była ministrem stanu w Foreign Office w latach 1983-1987, dyrektorką National Westminster Bank plc w latach 1987-1996, dyrektorem Marks & Spencer plc w latach 1987-1997 oraz kanclerzem Uniwersytetu Greenwich od 1993 r. Gorliwie sprzeciwiała się liberalizacji przepisów dotyczących osób homoseksualnych. Próbowała zablokować w Izbie Lordów projekt zrównania wieku osób legalnie dopuszczających się kontaktów homo- i heteroseksualnych, a także przeciwstawiała się uchyleniu sekcji 28 Local Government Act z 1988 r. , dotyczącego zakazu "propagandy homoseksualnej" w szkołach. W obu przypadkach poniosła porażkę. Zmarła w 2002 r. po długiej walce z rakiem.
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  • Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young, was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher. She became a councillor for Oxford City Council in 1957 and was leader by 1967.
  • Janet Mary Young, baronowa Young, brytyjska polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, pierwsza kobieta, która przewodniczyła Izbie Lordów, jedyna kobieta którą premier Margaret Thatcher powołała do swojego gabinetu. Urodziła się jako Janet Mary Baker, córka Johna Bakera i Phyllis Hancock. Wykształcenie odebrała w Headington School w Oksfordzie, Mt. Holyoke College w Massachusetts oraz w St Anne's College na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim. W 1950 r.
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