| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/14/14 |
| Title | Women |
| Date | 1926 - 1953 |
| Description | Press cuttings relating to a variety of subjects including:
The status and achievements of women - including articles about the achievements of women for that particular year
The recollections of Megan Lloyd George on her time sitting in the House of Commons
Articles about women creating precedents, for example Jean Batten for her flying achievements in 1938
'Twenty-Five Years - the Women's Revolution', The Schoolmistress, 14 February 1935
Articles about the advancements in women and children's health and education
Articles about the improvements in working conditions for women
Report 'The Status of Business and Professional Women in Great Britain', typed extract from the British Soroptimist, 1938
'Women's part in History-making', Yorkshire Evening Press, 1937 - includes a quote from Ethel Froud (NUWT)
Articles discussing 'the Modern Woman', 1930s
The gender pay gap, includes examples of the inequalities in pay for men and women doing the same job
Women doctors - articles discussing the exclusion of women from medical schools and the inequality in pay of male and female doctors
Articles about women doing traditional 'men's jobs'
'Can Women work with Women?', article from Daily Express on women as bosses
Letter of congratulations from the Central Council of the NUWT to Professor Lillian Penson, on her election as Vice Chancellor of the University of London
Letter of congratulations from the Central Council of the NUWT to Dame Sybil Thorndike on the anniversary of her 45th year in the theatre
Correspondence between Ethel Froud (NUWT), NUWT members, Doctors, the National Union of Teachers, and others regarding the issues of lower wages paid to women doctors and the barriers that exist for women, both in training to be doctors and once qualified
A letter from the General Secretary of the NUWT to an NUWT member listing the achievements of the NUWT up until that date (1952). These are listed as: Equal Franchise; Removal of Marriage Bar for teachers; Establishment of married woman's right to her own independent nationality; Establishment of the married woman's right to claim her own post-war credit; Opening of the Foreign Service to women; Equal day maintenance grants for men and women students; Establishment of equal rates of sickness and unemployment benefit; Equal compensation for war injury for men and women civilians
'Civil Liberty - the Journal of the National Council for Civil Liberties', May 1948
'The Woman Teacher', 3 March 1939
Typed extract of Hansard question regarding who will be in the British Delegation to the Assembly of the League of Nations, 1932
NUWT typed note listing the information required for speakers notes on 'Women's Work and Wages'
NOTE: Most of the correspondence in this folder is related to press cuttings and has been left as it was originally - filed alongside the relevant cuttings |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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