- ‘A New Deal for Women in Engineering’, 1954
I was interviewed on Radio 4 Today Programme on 2 January (Business News section, 8.40am) about my exhibition ‘All Work and Low Pay’ and its implications for women in the workplace. What I found most puzzling when researching the exhibition is that in spite of mass participation in the workplace at all levels (7 million in 1951) women workers have always been seen as ‘exceptional’ and a ‘new’ phenomenon. This means that the needs of dual-earner households (especially childcare) are never tackled systematically, and are left for individuals to sort out at their personal cost.