The Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities (previously Shadow Minister for Women, Shadow Minister for Women and Equality, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities) is a position in the United Kingdom's

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, and sits in the Shadow Cabinet. The Shadow Secretary of State is responsible for holding the

Minister for Women and Equalities The minister for women and equalities is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom which leads the Government Equalities Office. This is an independent department within the wider Cabinet Office that has responsibility for addressing all fo ...

, responsible for the Government Equalities Office, to account and is responsible for Opposition policy on women's and equality issues. The post was upgraded to the Shadow

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of Shadow Secretary of State following the snap general election of 2017, with

Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the political left of the Labour Party, Corbyn describes himself as a socialist ...

indicating that if Labour win office at the next election, Women and Equalities will be upgraded to the full status of a

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. Previously, the post was often held together with a Shadow Cabinet post, but sometimes as a Shadow Cabinet post in its own right. The position, since its creation in 1983, has always been held by a female

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. The position has been held by

Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Jane Dodds (born 16 March 1978) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and public policy analyst serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, and Chair of the Labour Party since 2021. She was Shadow Chancell ...

since 21 September 2021, after having been vacant since the resignation of

Marsha de Cordova Marsha Chantal de Cordova (born 23 January 1976) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Battersea since 2017. She was Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities from 6 April 2020 until her resig ...

on 14 September 2021.

Shadow ministers

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Shadow ministers

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