Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton

Joyce Brenda Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton (born 29 October 1932) is a British politician.

The daughter of Sydney Manson & Fanny née Taylor, she was educated at the Roundhay High School for Girls and the Bradford Technical College in pharmacy. Gould worked then as pharmaceutical dispenser from 1952 until 1965. She was organiser of the Pioneer Women1965-1966. Between 1966 and 1969, she was a clerical worker. For the Labour Party, Gould was assistant regional organiser from 1969 to 1975, assistant national agent and chief women's officer from 1975 to 1985 and director of organisation from 1985 to 1993.

She was a committee member of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination from 1965 to 1975 and member of the management committee of the Grand Theatre in Leeds from 1968 to 1972. Gould was executive member of the Joint Committee Against Racism in 1970 and then secretary of the Yorkshire National Council for Civil Liberties between 1970 and 1975 and Secretary of the National Joint Committee of Working Women's Organisations 1975-1985.

Between 1970 and 1975, she was executive member of the Women's National Commission and of the Commission on Conduct of Referendums between 1990 and 1994. In 1971, she was a member of the Department of Employment Women's Advisory Committee and from 1997 to 1998 of the Independent Commission on Electoral System. Also a member of the Home Office Committee on Electoral Matters

House of Lords Career Opposition Whip (1994–97) Opposition Spokesperson for; Citizen's Charter (1994–96) ; Women (1996–97) Government Whip (1997–98) Baroness in Waiting Deputy Chair (2002-2012) Deputy Speaker (2002-2012)

House of Lords Select Committees Finance and Staffing (1994–97) European Union Sub-committee C - Environmental Affairs (1994–97) Constitution (2001–05) Speakership of the House (2003) Refreshment (2005-2008) (2012-) Procedure (2008-2009) (2012-2014) Enquiries (2013-2014) Affordable Childcare (2014-) Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (2008-)

International Bodies Vice President Socialist International Women (1978–85)

Member: Inter-Parliamentary Union (1993-) Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (1993-)

Trade Unions: A member of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) and General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMB).

Current Positions

She has been a member and secretary of several anti-racist, women's and civil liberties bodies since 1965. She is a member of the Fawcett Society ,a past council member of the Constitution Unit and vice chair and executive member of the Hansard Society. She is president of the Family Planning Association as well as chair of the H Chapman Society. She is a Patron of Yorkshire MESMAC (2008-); UN Women UK, HIV Sport, the Brighton Women's Centre Forward (Foundation for Women's Health Research & Development) and Jo's Trust. She is Vice President of Speakability (2000-) and President of the Brighton and Hove Fabian Society (2008-)

Gould is President of the Mary MacArthur Holiday Trust. She also has two Fellowships of the Industry and Parliament Trust. She is past Chair of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV from 2003-2011.

In 2007, she was appointed to the Board of the Women's National Commission, shortly after that she was made interim Chair . In March 2008, she was appointed as Permanent Chair. She is a past president of the UK charity Epilepsy Action.

Honours and Qualifications

On 6 October 1993, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Gould of Potternewton, of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire.^[1]

In 1997, she received an Honorary Degree from the University of Bradford and in 2006, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. In 2007 she was made an Hon.Fellow British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. In 2009 she received an Hon. Doctorate from Birmingham City University and in 2012 she received an Hon. Degree from Greenwich University.

Awards Health Champion awarded by Charity Champion Awards(2007)

Personal life

In 1952, she married Kevin Gould. They have a daughter.

References

• "DodOnline". Retrieved 2007-04-14. 
• "Press Release announcing appointment as Chair of Women's National Commission".