Unlike other women leaders, for example Brundtland, Thatcher did not believe that quota systems were the answer to get more women in politics - she thought this might affect the quality of women at the top.

 "I don't want get to a position when we have women because they're women, we want to have women because they are able and as well equipped as men and sometimes better."

Early in her Prime Ministership she included one woman in her Cabinet - but afterwards her Cabinet was entirely composed of men. She didn't seem to encourage new women into politics.