Ladies can't climb ladders : the pioneering adventures of the first professional women / Jane Robinson.
By: Robinson, Jane [author.]
.Publisher: London : Black Swan, 2021Description: viii, 356 pages : illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784163990.Subject(s): Great Britain. Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 | Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 331.40941 Summary: "The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? This is the story of what happened next. Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers - forging paths in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, engineering and the church. Robinson's startling study into the public and private lives of these women sheds light not on the desires and ambitions of her subjects but how family and society responded to the working woman and what their legacy looks like today"-- Taken from publisher's website.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 331.40941 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Being Catalogued. Please contact Library staff. | 020198 |
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2020.
"The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? This is the story of what happened next. Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers - forging paths in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, engineering and the church. Robinson's startling study into the public and private lives of these women sheds light not on the desires and ambitions of her subjects but how family and society responded to the working woman and what their legacy looks like today"-- Taken from publisher's website.