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Two Centuries of Sexism in British Parliament: A Computational Analysis of Women's Representation in the Hansard Corpus

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

The language a legislature uses to debate women's rights, even in favour of them, encodes systematic patterns of sexism that persist across two centuries. In this work, we analyse 6,531 speeches over 200 years of UK parliamentary debate (Hansard, 1803-2005) by using large language models to classify a speaker's perspective towards women's suffrage and political representation, as well as analyse sexist speech in parliament from the lens of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. We also release this parliamentary dataset, an organized and metadata-enriched version of the publicly available Hansard Co

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