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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

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

Dorothy Cottington Taylor (1891-1944)

22 May, 20222 January, 2023 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

Marion Jean Lyon (1885-1940)

22 April, 202226 April, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Marion Jean Lyon, the first president of the Women's Advertising Club of London (WACL) was a woman with Punch.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged advertising, networks, WACL

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

Caroline Haslett (1895-1957)

26 February, 202219 June, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Caroline Haslett believed in the equality of status and opportunity for women at work, particularly in the field of engineering. What would she think of the progress made to date?

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged networks, suffragette, Women's Engineering Society

Edith Beesley (1879-1960)

23 November, 202126 February, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Between the wars, Edith Beesley carved out a career as the Queen of Insurance.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged insurance, networks, suffragist

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

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