A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain

Glew, H. 2024. A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain. Women's History Review. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2373505

TitleA new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain
TypeJournal article
AuthorsGlew, H.
Abstract

Focusing on the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) and the National Association of Women Civil Servants (NAWCS), this article looks at activism and campaigning for married women workers after the abolition of the marriage bar in both teaching (1944) and the Civil Service (1946). The article outlines the types of campaigning undertaken as well as the philosophical and ideological underpinnings in envisioning the married woman worker. Finally, the article places the campaigning both in the context of these two organisations’ longer histories and the distinctiveness of the late 1940s and 1950s in the history of (married) women’s employment in Britain.

Keywordsmarried women’s employment
marriage bar
women teachers
women civil servants
postwar Britain
feminism
JournalWomen's History Review
ISSN0961-2025
1747-583X
Year2024
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Publisher's version
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2373505
Web address (URL)https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2024.2373505
Publication dates
Published online14 Jul 2024

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