What role does history play in the gender pay gap for graduates?
Degrees of Separation
Category: Women in Society
Working Girls on Film
How did working women fare on the big screen before 1970?
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?
Oscar Wilde’s bail
Beatrice Headlam is said to have played a small part in Oscar Wilde making bail. Who was she and whatever happened to her..?
The past is not a foreign country
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?
Medals and Monuments
How did the First World War affect the lives of working women? And how were their contributions recognised?
Rooms of their own
Affordable accommodation is not just a 21st century concern: it was an issue for Victorian women entering the workforce.
Name games
Did marriage always mean taking your husband's name? Not for some Victorian women..
The Marriage Bar
A century ago, the start of married life meant the end of paid employment. Is Covid going to send women back to the 1920s?
Missing Persons
Sometimes it's men who get scrubbed out of the historical picture but more often it's women who are missing
Women Who Meant Business 