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Women's lib - forty years on!
| cecily: Women's lib - forty years on! | March 9, 2010, 2:31 pm |
| Any progress? What has changed in working conditions since the 1960s for women in the workplace? | |
| re: Women's lib - forty years on! by Barbara | March 23, 2010, 3:04 pm | #4 |
| Same with me. I started work in the 60's in a typing pool It was where you had to start even if you wanted to be a secretary - which is just about all you had the choice of doing when you left school,if you had no qualifications - GCE'S - or be a teacher, or a nurse! There's MANY more opportunities for young women now because it's not automatically concluded that to employ a young girl that she will be leaving in two years to start a family! We weren't offered jobs with a 'future'as it was automatically assumed that we would be having babies straight away so it wasn't worth training or even offering work with a career. There was no such thing as maternity leave, job share. |
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| re: Women's lib - forty years on! by Marion | March 17, 2010, 7:56 pm | #3 |
| I don't think things have improved that much for the over 50s even though we were there in the 60s | ||
| re: Women's lib - forty years on! by denise | March 11, 2010, 11:44 am | #2 |
| they have definitely got better. there is still a problem and probably more of a problem with actually 'bettering yourself' or 'moving up the ladder' than there was. But actual working conditions - salary, holidays, job shares, flexible hours, better working relationships | ||
| re: Women's lib - forty years on! by ruth | March 10, 2010, 7:54 pm | #1 |
| I don't think women are expected just to make the tea and to look pretty. I started work as a secretary in 1961 and that was my role. It's not my daughters' experience | ||
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