Hereditary Titles (Female Succession) Bill – is scheduled to receive its second reading in the Commons on Friday 23 February.

Contact:

Charlotte Carew Pole 

T:07977 481460 E:charlotte@daughtersrights.co.uk

@DaughtersRights

Background:

Male Hereditary Peers: 91 

Female Hereditary Peer: 1 

Male Peers on the register for election: 209 

Female Peers on the register for election: 1

Daughters’ Rights began its work when five daughters of hereditary peers, all professionals in their own right, came together to bring a case to abolish male primogeniture for hereditary titles to the European Court of Human Rights. All these women want and have much to contribute to public life, but as daughters rather than sons, they are not eligible to stand for election. While hereditary seats continue to remain a part of the upper House, they believe that women as well as men should be allowed to stand for them.