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| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), the Economic Information Unit of the Treasury, the Amalgamated Engineering Unit (AEU), Bedford College of Women, Girton College, Cambridge and University College, Oxford regarding:
Thanking the Unit for sending a monthly economic review, and requesting regular reports as offered
Invitations to attend meetings
Sending a copy of a speech 'Women's Part in National Recovery' made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
The situation of women workers in work places covered by the AEU
Thanks her for the good wishes of the NUWT on the occasion of the centenary of Bedford College
The issue of whether women who sit degrees are entitled to use the letters corresponding to the degrees
A statute at Oxford to limit the number of female students
Correspondence between the NUWT Central Office, the NUWT Chester branch, the House of Lords, the Women's Freedom League, the Middlesex County Times. the National Council for Equal Citizenship and NUWT members regarding a number of issues:
Securing appointment of an NUWT member in Chester as a Justice of the Peace
Recommendations that Agnes Dawson be appointed to the London County Bench
Decision to remove two woman from a jury in Middlesex due to an 'unpleasant' case coming up
The necessity for the appointment of more women magistrates and Justice's of the Peace
A review of a book written by a women journalist on International Affairs (the review is sexist in tone)
Press cuttings on a variety of subjects relating to women in work including:
Article about the new 'Report to Women' - an economic review prepared by the Treasury
Ideas about 'Women citizenship'
Obituary for a suffragette, Minnie Sarah Turner, 1948
Women starting to work in traditional 'male occupations'
Strikes in work places in reaction to the employment of women in traditional 'male jobs'
Proposals from the Minister of Labour to reduce the number of women employed in order to lower unemployment figures, 1935
Discussions over the introduction of a shorter working week
Women's position in industry
Article about the escape of Marthe Hanau from police guard in hospital in Neuilly, France
Women in Universities - both as students and employees
The dangers of equality for me and women to the stability of the family
Appointment of women as magistrates and Justice's of the Peace
Woman as jurors, including articles about a judge's decision to remove two women from a jury in Middlesex on an 'unpleasant case' (also discussed in correspondence)
Women as critics and journalists - reactions from other writers and journalists
Prejudice against women in professional fields by male colleagues in the same field, for example lawyers, chartered accountants
Women teachers as 'blacklegs'
'20 years ago women died for freedom. It brought... Cigarettes, Shorts and Lipstick!', Sylvia Pankhurst, 1934
Publications:
'Radio Talks on Women in Industry - Bulletin of the Women's Bureau, no. 36', published by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Women's Bureau, 1924
Girton College publication - a prospectus and report for 1931
Report on the distribution of women and proportion of women to men in occupations, 1914
'Titles of degrees conferred upon women students', from the Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
Typed extracts of Hansard questions regarding 'Women Industrial Workers'
Typed list of 'Women in important posts in industry', 1940
NUWT General Committee report on 'Women Justices of the Peace'
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 |