Florence "Jean" May Winder (1909-2006) (née Hayward) was the first woman to hold a permanent post as a parliamentary reporter for Hansard, the official record of debate in the Houses of Parliament in the UK. [1][2][3] Appointed in 1944, she pushed for equal pay for women reporters and achieved this in 1953. She then became the first woman to make a speech at a Press Gallery dinner.[2] She retired in 1960.[4]