Margaret Thatcher Through the Years

In 'The Iron Lady' Meryl Streep portrays former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In this week’s Newsweek, Amanda Foreman points out that while some of Thatcher’s admirers have denounced the film for focusing on her mental decline, Streep does not just embody Thatcher as a politician, but as a wife, mother and a woman. Take a look back at the life of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who pushed aside the feminism of her era and became the U.K.’s first female prime minister.