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{{Short description|Ministerial role in the British Government}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{redirect|Minister for Equalities|the Scottish junior ministerial post|Minister for Equalities (Scotland)}}
{{Infobox Political post
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| insigniacaption = Royal Arms as used by [[His Majesty's Government (term)|His Majesty's Government]]
| department = [[Government Equalities Office]]
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The '''
The minister is deputised by two [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State|parliamentary under-secretaries of state]]; the '''parliamentary under-secretary of state for women''' and the '''parliamentary under-secretary of state for equalities'''.
The position was formerly known as; "Minister for Women", "Minister for Women and Equality", and "Minister for Equalities".
==History==
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[[Justine Greening]] replaced [[Nicky Morgan]] as both [[Secretary of State for Education]] and Minister for Women and Equalities when [[Theresa May]] was appointed Prime Minister on 13 July 2016. Morgan initially held the title of Minister for Women after the resignation of [[Maria Miller]] in April 2014, in conjunction with being [[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]], whilst the Equalities brief was given to [[Sajid Javid]] who had replaced Miller as [[Secretary of State for Culture]]. While the Women and Equalities briefs were recombined in July 2014, the responsibility for marriage equality was assigned to [[Nick Boles]], who held the title of Minister of State for Skills, Enterprise and Equalities and had a base in both the Education and Business departments. Both splits in responsibilities were due to Nicky Morgan having voted against the legalisation of gay marriage.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/15/equalities-minister-voted-against-gay-marriage-nicky-morgan|title=Nicky Morgan's gay-marriage stance causes equalities role confusion... again|work=The Guardian|first=Rowena|last=Mason|date=15 July 2014|access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref>
The two most recent female [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Ministers]], [[Theresa May]] and [[Liz Truss]], served in this position.
==List of ministers==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan=10 |
===Minister for Women===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=
! colspan=2 |
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Harriet Harman]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Camberwell and Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)|Camberwell and Peckham]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Social Security|Social Security Secretary]]}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Joan Ruddock]]
| 3 May 1997
| 27 July 1998
| rowspan=5 | [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| rowspan=5 style="background-color:
| rowspan=
([[First Blair ministry|I]])
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Official portrait of Baroness Jay of Paddington crop 2, 2019.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington|Margaret Jay]]'''<br/>{{Small|Baroness Jay of Paddington<br/>[[Leader of the House of Lords]]}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Tessa Jowell]]
| 27 July 1998
| 8 June 2001
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Patricia Hewitt.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Patricia Hewitt]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)|Leicester West]]}}<br/>{{Small|[[Secretary of State for Trade and Industry|Trade and Industry Secretary]]}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton|Baroness Morgan of Huyton]] (2001)<br/>[[Barbara Roche]] (2001–2003)<br/>[[Jacqui Smith]] (2003–2005)
| 8 June 2001
| 5 May 2005
|[[Tony Blair|Blair]]
([[Second Blair ministry|II]])
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Tessa Jowell Cropped.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Tessa Jowell]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Dulwich and West Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Dulwich and West Norwood]]}}<br/>{{Small|[[Minister for the Olympics]]}}
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Co-operative}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Meg Munn]]
| 5 May 2005
| [[2006 British cabinet reshuffle|5 May 2006]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Tony Blair|Blair]]
([[Third Blair ministry|III]])
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:RuthKellyMP.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Ruth Kelly]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bolton West (UK Parliament constituency)|Bolton West]]}}<br/>{{Small|[[Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government|Communities and Local Govt. Secretary]]}}
| [[2006 British cabinet reshuffle|5 May 2006]]
| 28 June 2007
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=10 |
===Minister for Women and Equality===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=
! colspan=2 |
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Harriet Harman]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Camberwell and Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)|Camberwell and Peckham]]<br/>[[Leader of the House of Commons]]}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| '''Minister of State:'''<br/>[[Maria Eagle]] (2009–2010) (''jointly with the [[Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Justice]])''<br/>'''Parliamentary Secretary:'''<br/>[[Barbara Follett (politician)|Barbara Follett]] (2007–2008)<br/>Maria Eagle (2008–2009)<br/>[[Michael Jabez Foster|Michael Foster]] (2009–2010)
| 28 June 2007
| 11 May 2010
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| style="background-color:
| [[
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=10 |
===Minister for Women and Equalities===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=
! colspan=2 |
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Theresa May 2015 (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Theresa May]]'''<br/>{{ | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |
| [[Lynne Featherstone]] ([[Liberal Democrats (UK)|LD]])
| 12 May 2010
| 4 September 2012
| rowspan=2 | [[
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:
| rowspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Maria Miller MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Maria Miller]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)|Basingstoke]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport|Culture Secretary]]}}
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |
| [[Jo Swinson]] ([[Liberal Democrats (UK)|LD]])<br | 4 September 2012
| 9 April 2014
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=10 |
===Ministers for Women and Minister for Equalities===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=3 | Cabinet Ministers
! colspan=2 | Junior ministers
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official Portrait of Baroness Morgan of Cotes.jpg|60px]]
| '''Women'''<br/>'''[[Nicky Morgan]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Loughborough]]<br/>[[Financial Secretary to the Treasury]]}}
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |
| rowspan=2 | [[Jo Swinson]] ([[Liberal Democrats (UK)|LD]])<br | rowspan=2 | 9 April 2014
| rowspan=2 | [[2014 British cabinet reshuffle|15 July 2014]]
| rowspan=2 | [[
| rowspan=2 style="background-color:
| rowspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''Equalities'''<br/>'''[[Sajid Javid]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)|Bromsgrove]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport|Culture Secretary]]}}
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=10 |
===Minister for Women and Equalities===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=
! colspan=2 |
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! rowspan=2 style="background-color: | rowspan=2 | [[File:Official Portrait of Baroness Morgan of Cotes.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | '''[[Nicky Morgan]]'''<br/>{{ | style="background-color:{{Party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |
| [[Jo Swinson]] ([[Liberal Democrats (UK)|LD]])<br/>[[Helen Grant (politician)|Helen Grant]] ([[Conservative Party (UK)|Cons]])
| height=50|[[2014 British cabinet reshuffle|15 July 2014]]
| 8 May 2015
| [[
| style="background-color:
|
|- style="height:1em"
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: | rowspan=2 | [[Caroline Dinenage]]
| 8 May 2015
| 14 July 2016
| rowspan=8 | [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| style="background-color:
| [[David Cameron|Cameron]]<br
|- style="height:1em"
! rowspan=2 style="background-color: | rowspan=2 | [[File:Official portrait of Justine Greening crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | '''[[Justine Greening]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Putney (UK Parliament constituency)|Putney]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Education]]}}
| 14 July 2016
| 14 June 2017
| style="background-color:
| [[Theresa May|May]]<br
|-
| rowspan=6 style="background-color: | |[[Nick Gibb]] (Equalities)<br/>[[Anne Milton]] (Women)
| 14 June 2017
| [[2018 British cabinet reshuffle|8 January 2018]]
| style="background-color:
| rowspan=3 | [[Theresa May|May]]<br
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official portrait of Amber Rudd crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Amber Rudd]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Hastings and Rye (UK Parliament constituency)|Hastings and Rye]]<br/>[[Home Secretary]]}}
| rowspan=4 | [[Baroness Williams of Trafford]] (Equalities)<br/>[[Victoria Atkins]] (Women)
| [[2018 British cabinet reshuffle|9 January 2018]]
| 30 April 2018
|
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Penny Mordaunt]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Portsmouth North (UK Parliament constituency)|Portsmouth North]]<br/>[[International Development Secretary]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Defence|Defence Secretary]]}}
| 30 April 2018
| 24 July 2019
|
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color: | [[File:Official portrait of Amber Rudd crop 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Amber Rudd]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Hastings and Rye (UK Parliament constituency)|Hastings and Rye]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Work and Pensions|Work and Pensions Secretary]]}}
| 24 July 2019
| [[First Johnson ministry#Changes|7 September 2019]]
|rowspan=3 style="background-color:
| rowspan=
|- style="height:1em"
! rowspan=2 style="background-color: | rowspan=2 | [[File:Liz Truss Official Photo (cropped).jpg|60px]]
| rowspan=2 | '''[[Liz Truss]]'''<br/>{{ | [[First Johnson ministry#Changes|10 September 2019]]
| 14 February 2020
|- style="height:1em"
| [[Kemi Badenoch]] (Equalities) (''until [[July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis|6 July 2022]]'')
[[Mike Freer]] (Equalities) (16 September 2021 – 6 July 2022'')<br/>[[Amanda Solloway]] (Equalities) ''(8 July 2022 – 20 September 2022)''<br/>[[Elizabeth Berridge, Baroness Berridge|Baroness Berridge]] (Women) (''until 17 September 2021'')<br/>[[Deborah Stedman-Scott, Baroness Stedman-Scott|Baroness Stedman-Scott]] (Women) (''17 September 2021 – 22 September 2022'')
| 14 February 2020
| 6 September 2022
| [[Boris Johnson|Johnson]]
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=10 |
===Minister for Equalities===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=
! colspan=2 |
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
|- style="height:1em"
! rowspan=1 style="background-color: |[[File:Official portrait of Nadhim Zahawi MP crop 2.jpg|80x80px]]
|'''[[Nadhim Zahawi]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency)|Stratford-on-Avon]]<br/>[[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]]<br/>[[Minister for Intergovernmental Relations]]}}
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Katherine Fletcher]] (Women)<br/>[[Deborah Stedman-Scott, Baroness Stedman-Scott|Baroness Stedman-Scott]] (Equalities)
|6 September 2022
|25 October 2022
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
! style="background-color:
|
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=10 |
===Minister for Women and Equalities===
|- style="height:1em"
! colspan=
! colspan=2 |
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |
! style="background-color: |
| '''[[Kemi Badenoch]]'''<br/>{{ ! style="background-color:{{Party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Stuart Andrew]] (Equalities)<br/>[[Maria Caulfield]] (Women)
| height=50|25 October 2022
| 5 July 2024
| [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| style="background-color:
|
|- style="height:1em"
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[File:Bridget Phillipson Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped) 2.jpg|60px]]
| '''[[Bridget Phillipson]]'''<br/>{{Small|MP for [[Houghton and Sunderland South (UK Parliament constituency)|Houghton and Sunderland South]]<br/>[[Secretary of State for Education]]}}
! style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Anneliese Dodds]]
| height=50|8 July 2024
| Incumbent
| [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| style="background-color:{{Party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| [[Starmer ministry|Starmer]]
|}
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==See also==
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{{Ministers for Women and Equalities}}
{{Cabinet positions in the United Kingdom}}
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