About Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie
Irene Tordoff Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, DBE, known as Rennie Fritchie, is a British life peer and former member of the House of Lords. Active in a number of charities, Fritchie has been awarded honorary degrees by a number of academic institutions. In the 1970s, she was one of the first full-time women's training advisers and pioneered the training of staff in the then new Equal Opportunities Commission. Using a German Marshall Fellowship awarded in 1985, she drew lessons from the United States of America for the United Kingdom for programmes to improve the status of women. Fritchie became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1996 New Year Honours.
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