| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/14/19 |
| Title | Women |
| Date | 1921 - 1953 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), the St Joan's Social & Political Alliance, the Women's Freedom League, the Prime Minister's Office, International Archives for the Women's Movement (IAV), Ministry of Labour, other organisations and individual women, regarding:
Letters of congratulation from the NUWT to women who have made the Queens Birthday Honours List
Letters from the NUWT to Winston Churchill and to the Prime Minister's Office expressing their regret at the lack of women on the Queen's Birthday Honours list
Request from A. Muriel Pierotti to an NUWT members asking if she could translate letters from the IAV
Correspondence with the IAV regarding copies of publications by the NUWT which would be useful to have in the Archive and Library of the IAV
Enquiries from the NUWT into the Factory and Welfare Advisory Board
Enquiries from the NUWT about the education of women in the Armed Forces
Press cuttings regarding a number of subjects relating to women including:
Male and female fashions - discussing conventions and restrictions
The benefits of being in a nursing union
Women nurses
National Service and women
Articles expressing ideas about the differences between men and women in the workplace
The rescinding of a rule in Cambridge drama club which forbade women from acting with them
News pieces on women who have been awarded honours such as C.B.E.'s, O.B.E.'s and Companion of Honour
'Supplement to the London Gazette', 3 June 1949 - supplement which lists all the Honours given - peerages and knighthood's
'The Catholic Citizen', with front page on 'The Status of Women', 1946
Omission of women from the Queen's Honours Lists
Women as Members of Parliament and women in politics in general
'Women and the Labour Party', Daily Herald, 1933
Legal inequalities regarding women and proposed changes to the law, examples from Britain and abroad
Ideas about the way women behave or should behave. ideas of 'womanhood'
Women as voters
Stories and examples of women's work in the war effort, including the home front, and the work of women in the resistance abroad
Unemployment amongst women after the Second World War
Articles about women of note, such as the anthropologist Margaret Mead and Mary Somerville, a BBC Controller in 1950
Working conditions of women during the second world war
Copy of 'The International Woman Suffrage News', 1921
Feminism
Motherhood
Women in Engineering
Publications and reports:
'Training for War Work in the Engineering Industry', Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1941
'Training for War Work in the Engineering Industry - courses in Technical Colleges', Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1941
'Women at Work', British Federation of Busines and Professional Women, 1940 |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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