| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gender in history |
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Gender in history.
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| Contents |
Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work in the LCC and the Civil Service -- Trying to get equal opportunities : women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service in the first half o the twentieth century -- 'Endless arguments about sex and salaries' : the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for equal pay, 1914-24 -- 'As a matter of justice' : the equal pay campaigns from 1924-1939 -- The slow road to victory : the equal pay campaigns from 1939-1954 -- Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and marriage bar policy, 1900-46 -- Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working widows : the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946 |
| Summary |
Helen Glew investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the 20th century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 30, 2016) |
| Subject |
Women in the civil service -- Great Britain -- History
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Social & Cultural History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Women in the civil service
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781784996826 |
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1784996823 |
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9781526104458 |
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1526104458 |
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