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Degrees of Separation

27 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

What role does history play in the gender pay gap for graduates?

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged advertising, education, Good Housekeeping, networks, Women's Provisional Club

Working Girls on Film

5 December, 20225 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

How did working women fare on the big screen before 1970?

Posted in Women in Society

Women against the vote

23 November, 202227 November, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

The pro-suffrage movement gets plenty of coverage but a surprising. number of women were anti-suffrage: what is their story?

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged suffragette, suffragist

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

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

Medals and Monuments

11 November, 202119 June, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

How did the First World War affect the lives of working women? And how were their contributions recognised?

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged clubs, munitions, networks

Rooms of their own

14 October, 202114 August, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Affordable accommodation is not just a 21st century concern: it was an issue for Victorian women entering the workforce.

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged clubs, networks

Name games

6 May, 202126 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Did marriage always mean taking your husband's name? Not for some Victorian women..

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged married women

The Marriage Bar

27 December, 202014 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

A century ago, the start of married life meant the end of paid employment. Is Covid going to send women back to the 1920s?

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged discrimination, legal rights, marriage bar, married women

Missing Persons

11 December, 202013 October, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Sometimes it's men who get scrubbed out of the historical picture but more often it's women who are missing

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged dnb ghost, missing person

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