Joyce Shore Butler (née Wells; 13 December 1910 – 2 January 1992)[1] was a British Labour Co-operative politician.

She served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Land and Natural Resources 1965-67 but held no front-bench position.

[6] Butler's "most important achievement" was introducing the first bill to Parliament seeking to outlaw discrimination against women "in education, employment, and social and public life".

[4] Following her retirement in 1979, she remained a leading member in a number of organisations, such as the London Passenger Action Confederation, the Fawcett Society, the Hornsey Housing Trust, and Tottenham Hotspur ladies' football team.

[4] She married Vic Butler, a Co-operative Party worker who became a councillor, the first mayor of the London Borough of Haringey and a parliamentary candidate.