Women and Society

1 July 2006
Leading Lady: Mary Barbour
Published in: Stopgap, the magazine of The Fawcett Society
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Our series on women who have changed history continues with the first Labour woman councillor and one of the first female magistrates in Glasgow - and a heroine to Scotland's working-class women more


1 March 2006
Leading Lady: Mary Wollstonecraft
Published in: Stopgap, the magazine of The Fawcett Society
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Our series on women who have changed history continues with a woman described as the first major feminist, who wrote a feminist declaration of independence, more than 100 years before women won the right to vote. more


1 September 2005
Member Profile: Zoe Fairbairns
Published in: Stopgap, the magazine of the Fawcett Society
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Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, lecturer and teacher of creative writing, Zoe Fairbairns is also a contributor to many publications including New Internationalist and Cosmopolitan. When she's not writing, she works part-time as a subtitler and audio-describer, goes to the cinema, helps to look after a six year old relative and tries to finish Suduko puzzles. She's 56 and lives in south London more


1 September 2005
Leading Lady: Millicent Garret Fawcett
Published in: Stopgap, the magazine of The Fawcett Society
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Rachel Bell begins our series on women who have changed history, with the one closest to our hearts more


1 September 2005
First Born
Published in: Stopgap, the magazine of The Fawcett Society
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The 30-year-olds of today are the first women to have enjoyed equality legislation all their lives. Are these women aware how women's working lives have changed? Do they feel discriminated against? Rachel Bell asks five women born in 1975, working in jobs where inequality is camouflaged more


4 July 2005
Are you being served?
Published in: The Guardian
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Do women get as good a deal as men in the pub, the restaurant or the car showroom? To find out, Rachel Bell set Valerie, 64, Rachel, 33, and David, 44, a series of tests more


 
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