| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/18/45 |
| Title | 'Open Door Council' |
| Date | 1927 - 1942 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT General Secretaries), Florence Key (NUWT member) and the Open Door Council (ODC) (in particular Winifred le Seur, Eva Hartree and Elizabeth Abbott) regarding the work of the ODC and NUWT affiliation to the organisation.
The correspondence covers:
Constitution of the ODC
Amendments to an ODC resolution on war allowances
Notice and arrangements for ODC meetings
Agendas and papers for AGMs
Reports of ODC meetings
Equal pay
Rates of payment to women for war-time work
Removal of the marriage bar
Protective legislation in industry
Updates of news of the work of the ODC
Factories Bill campaign
Equal rights for women
Publications and reports from ODC including:
'The Open Door Council Bulletin', January 1948
'Maternity and childbirth'
'Economic emancipation next'
ODC memorandum on 'The proposals in the Unemployment Insurance (No.3) Bill which penalise married women'
'The Factories Bill - women wage-earners need real protection'
'The married women: is she a person?'
'The modern line of attack on women's civil rights - an examination of confused thinking'
'Factories Bill Campaign'
'Memorandum on lead poisoning'
NB. Muriel Pierotti and Florence Key were on the Executive Committee of the ODC |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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