“If I had a daughter or a sister, I should teach her adaptability, and that learned I should have no further anxiety for her future,” observed Lily, Duchess of Marlborough, in 1890. “Let her please, not men alone, but people,…
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Women’s History Month: The Glass Ceiling and the Calculator.
Lord Davies’ report into women in the boardroom highlighted once again the lack of women in the top jobs.Lord Davies said: Over the past 25 years the number of women in full-time employment has increased by more than a third…
Women’s History Month: Mary Gawthorpe
On the 12 March 1973, Yorkshire working-class suffragist Mary Gawthorpe died at ninety-two, after a decade of widowhood, in a nursing home in New York (borough of Queen’s). In England she had been generally supposed to be already dead for…