Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton

Who is Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton?

Joyce Brenda Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton is a British pharmacist, trade unionist and 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, when she was organiser of the Pioneer Women. 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 eventually director of organisation from 1985 to 1993. She was member of the Jenkins Commission between 1997 and 1998.

A member of the Transport and General Workers' Union and General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, 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 as well as of the National Joint Committee of Working Women between 1975 and 1985.