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Month: June 2022

Oscar Wilde’s bail

29 June, 2022 Lizzie B1 Comment

Beatrice Headlam is said to have played a small part in Oscar Wilde making bail. Who was she and whatever happened to her..?

Posted in Hidden stories, Women in SocietyTagged clubs, dnb ghost, F.D. Maurice, networks, Oscar Wilde, rational dress

Sisters, doing it for themselves

19 June, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Women have a long history of establishing and using their networks to get things done.

Posted in Women in BusinessTagged networks

Ethel M. Wood (1877-1970)

19 June, 20223 February, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Ethel Wood had an impact on a wide range of organisations between the wars but has been forgotten by all of them.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged advertising, WACL, Women's Provisional Club

Anne Meerloo (1889-1927)

18 June, 20224 July, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Anne Meerloo set up her own advertising business when she still in her early 20s

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged WACL

The past is not a foreign country

7 June, 20226 November, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Women have been part of the commercial workforce in Britain for nearly 200 years. Why is their representation in FT-SE 100 leadership roles still so low?

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged biases

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