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Janet Hogarth (1865-1954)

29 January, 202530 January, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Over her long career, Janet Hogarth consistently championed women's right to work.

Posted in HerstoryTagged education, feminism, Good Housekeeping, history, news, politics

Audrey Heath (1888-1957)

6 June, 20239 January, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Audrey Heath built a business on her critical and commercial skills.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping

Emily Ward (1850-1930)

1 May, 202324 March, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Emily Ward's entrepreneurial spirit changed the world of early years childcare.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, suffragist

Cleone Griff (1880-1963)

8 January, 202312 August, 2024 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Cleone Benest had multiple engineering interests as well as multiple names.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Women's Engineering Society

Degrees of Separation

27 December, 202210 February, 2025 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

Mary Petherbridge (1870-1940)

20 October, 202222 July, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

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.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Margaret Bateson, university

Dorothy Cottington Taylor (1891-1944)

22 May, 202213 February, 2025 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Through her leadership of the Good Housekeeping Institute, Dorothy Cottington-Taylor equipped women to make light work of housework.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, networks, Women's Provisional Club

Ethel Watts (1895-1963)

31 March, 202231 March, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Ethel Watts was an accountant who knew that numbers mattered, particularly when it came to women's pay.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, junior council, networks

Margaret Partridge (1891-1967)

28 February, 20226 March, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Sparky Margaret Partridge built a business lighting up villages in the 1920s

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Wembley, Women's Engineering Society

Evelyn Barlow (1880-1962)

17 December, 20205 December, 2024 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Going, going, gone: Evelyn Barlow made her mark in the sale room but was soon forgotten

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged auctioneer, dnb ghost, Good Housekeeping, sothebys

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