Programme Outline
This programme consists of extracts from:
- newsreels, television current affairs, drama, documentary film, promotional / educational film:
- This Modern Age (1948)
- The Trouble with Women (1959)
- Working Mothers (1958)
- Teenage Girl (1961)
- Working Mums (1966)
- It's a Woman's Life (1970)
- Nationwide (1977)
- Prime Suspect (1991)
- statistical information relating to women and work and information about relevant legislation;
- images from the Women's Liberation campaign, employment recruitment posters, newspapers.
Extract 1:
Sequence of shots of women working in the late 1940s.
Extract 2:
Government recruitment posters aimed at women from the late 1940s and statistical information about women, men and pay.
Extract 3:
This Modern Age (1948)
Extract from cinema newsreel made by Rank organisation about issues of Equal Opportunities and Equal Pay. Includes shots of women in variety of jobs and images of women achieving in education.
Extract 4:
Statistical information comparing number of working women in UK in 1960 and 1970.
Extract 5:
The Trouble with Women (1959)
American training film made to address male prejudice at work and to re-educate men about issues around women working.
Extract 6:
Quote from John Bowlby's Childcare and the Growth of Love (1953):
"The mothering of a child is not something that can be arranged by rota..."
Extract 7:
Working Mothers (1958)
Extract from ITN report on the response of working mothers to the Bishop of Woolwich's comment that mothers of young children should not go out to work.
Extract 8:
Sequence of shots of recruitment advertisements for nursing.
Extract 9:
Statistical information about working women.
Extract 10:
Working Mums (1966)
Television current affairs in 'This Week' series about working mothers and child care provision in Lancashire mills. Shows the regional variation in attitudes towards working mothers and in the availability of child care.
Extract 11:
Information about Equal Pay, including the 1970 Equal Pay Act.
Extract 12:
It's a Woman's Life (1970)
Television current affairs in 'This Week' series about limitations in the legislation about equal rates of pay for men and women. Includes shots of women at work.
Extract 13:
Sequence of shots of Women's Liberation campaign march and includes shots of their demands, for example, free 24-hour nurseries, free contraception, abortion on demand, equal pay, equal opportunities.
Extract 14:
Sequence of shots of news headlines about the strike of women machinists at Ford's, Dagenham, in 1968.
Extract 15:
Nationwide (1977)
Television current affairs programme about the strike of Asian women at Grunwick's, London, in 1976.
Extract 16:
Information about the Sex Discrimination Act and the number of women Detective Chief Inspectors in the Metropolitan Police in 1989 (4 out of 173). Focuses the 'Glass Ceiling'.
Extract 17:
Prime Suspect (1991)
Extract from television drama in which the central character tries to convince her male superior that she should be promoted.
Extract 18:
Information about equality in 1999.
