It is not, then, so surprising that the grassroots organizers who worked with Thatcher in her first campaign referred to her in explicitly gendered terms: “plump, smart, pretty, loved hats, lovely skin,” and a woman who “always looked right.” In the UK, it would not be until 1975 that a woman could open her own bank account, and not until 1982 that she could buy her own drink in a pub.
