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| Description | Press cuttings and typed extracts about a variety of subjects around the issue of women in employment including:
Examples of women who have been successful in various industries and businesses
Articles about the suffragettes, snippets of interviews with suffragettes
Women working in agriculture, as farmers or gardeners
Opinions on the work of women Members of Parliament
Protests against nuclear weapons
'Bring Women in as War Ministers', article from the Daily Sketch, 1941 - with a handwritten note at the top of the page 'This is where our NUWT leaders ought to be'
Obituaries, biographies and articles about leading women 'Pioneer Women' in their field, for example in medicine and education
Articles about women working in law, as Lawyers, Barristers, Judges and Clerks
Articles about attempts to reinstate the marriage bar for Civil Servants
Representation of 'Spinsters' in the press
Foreign news and press - articles about the situation with regards to equality for woman in other countries - includes Italy, America, India, Poland, Nairobi, Egypt, Germany, New Zealand, Nigeria, Malta
Protests about the law that forbade unmarried women from presenting other women at court
Printed list from the NUWT of 'Pioneer Women'
Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), NUWT members, Wiltshire County Council, Women's Employment Federation, Women's Freedom League, Status of Women Committee, and the British Federation of University Women regarding:
Interest in women who were leaders in their field
NUWT help for a woman intending to study law who had initially been refused a place on the grounds of being a woman
Conveying congratulations to Miss D. Scott Baker on her appointment of Director of Education for Wiltshire
Women being appointed as Directors of Education
Woman working in Local Government
British Federation of University Women resolution on equal pay and equal political rights
Position of Married Women with regards to property rights in Belgium and France
Request for a pamphlet produced by the World's Young Women Christian Association
Publications and pamphlets regarding:
Women's pensions and insurance policies 'Why Should Women Pay for What They Do Not Need', 'What Every Woman Should Know', by Winifred Gosset
'That They May Live - African Women Arise...' 1954
'Endeavour - Information about Women in the Netherlands', 1958
'World Directory of Women's Organisations', by Mary Buchanan, 1950
'Facts on Women Workers', published by the US. Department of Labor, 1949
'Women's Eligibility for Jury Duty', published by the US. Department of Labor, 1949
'The Woman Worker', published by the US. Department of Labor Women's Bureau, 1942
Invitation from Barclays Bank Limited to A. Muriel Pierotti to visit a new branch of the bank on Hanover Street, London, which will be opening with a women as manager
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 |