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Shadow of a Century
Jean Grainger Shadow of a Century (2015) Scarlett O’Hara, named by her romantic mother, after the Gone With The Wind character, is a journalist. Through her own romantic involvement that leads to her downfall (and the novel’s exposure of…
EDITH MORLEY: THE FIRST FEMALE PROFESSOR IN BRITAIN
Edith Morley: the first female professor in Britain Edith Morley’s 1944 memoir, Before and After, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university. This absorbing story, now published in book…
Lest we forget: women also serve in the armed forces
Reprinted from The Conversation, November 11, 2016 11.39pm AEDT PhD researcher, Northumbria University, Newcastle Disclosure statement Christina Dodds is a member of the Royal British Legion and is a member of the Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps…
How far have women progressed in the UK construction industry?
Owen Goodhead, MD of Randstad Construction, Property & Engineering, which provides permanent and temporary recruitment solutions for the construction, property and engineering sectors. It wasn’t so long ago that seeing a woman on a building site would have…
Jewish Book Week: Celebration of Jewish literature, art and philosophy
Deborah Butcher Jewish Book Week has become something of a national institution: but few realise that this popular annual celebration of Jewish literature, art and philosophy originated in Glasgow. The brainchild of the Women’s Lodge of B’nai Brith –…
Wasp of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds Sarah Bryn Rickman The following story is an excerpt from Sarah Byrn Rickman’s WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds, out now from University of North Texas Press (March 2016), the…
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds Sarah Bryn Rickman The following story is an excerpt from Sarah Byrn Rickman’s WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds, out now from University of North Texas Press…
Are Women a Success in Parliament?
WHN Admin. Published in 1938 in the Westralian Worker May Holman’s commentary on women Members of Parliament makes interesting reading. May Holman was the first Labor woman to be elected to the Western Australian Parliament. She was a Member…