What role does history play in the gender pay gap for graduates?
Degrees of Separation
Author: Lizzie B
Gina MacKinnon (1884-1973)
Gina MacKinnon capitalised on old legends and made new ones.
Hester Parnall (1868-1939)
Hester Parnall brewed up business success in Cornwall.
Working Girls on Film
How did working women fare on the big screen before 1970?
Irene Barclay (1894-1989)
Irene Barclay was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor.
Octavia Hill (1838-1912)
Octavia Hill may be a name from the past but she lies behind many organisations operating today.
Women against the vote
The pro-suffrage movement gets plenty of coverage but a surprising. number of women were anti-suffrage: what is their story?
Alice Cornwell (1852-1932)
Alice Cornwell owned a national newspaper but it is her own story that is newsworthy.
Mary Petherbridge (1870-1940)
Mary Petherbridge started her career in a sector where women were poorly paid and found it hard to progress. 125 years later, little has changed.
Gertrude Leverkus (1898-1989)
Gertrude Leverkus was a pioneering architect who provided housing for other working women
Women Who Meant Business 