All Centenary articles – Page 2
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FeatureHow Bertha Cave fought law’s male exclusivity
Servant’s daughter who applied to join Gray’s Inn in 1903 was an early pioneer of women’s entry into the legal profession.
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FeatureForgotten activists for law reform
Early women barristers such as Helena Normanton were strong advocates for the legal protection of married women.
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Feature‘One of them actually delivered a speech’
The legal profession was now open to women, but accessing its toilets, canteens and clubs took longer.
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Feature‘Unless Britain can produce more Rose Heilbrons...
Mothers and daughters working in the law.
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FeatureBodichon: founder of the women’s movement?
In a year which celebrates the centennial of women’s formal entry into the legal profession of England and Wales, we must not forget the brave and inspirational women who found ways to shape law and its operations long before their sex was admitted.
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FeatureGreenham Common plan to ‘crowd the prisons’
In 1981, women and children walked over 100 miles to the Berkshire USAF base to protest against planned storage of nuclear cruise missiles.
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FeatureMary Sykes: ‘a rather independent manner’
One of the first women solicitors in England and Wales, Mary deserves to be remembered.
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Feature‘In a very short time a great many She Bears’
Excerpts from Solicitors Journal 1919 show an attitude towards women in the profession that still casts a shadow today.
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FeatureGwyneth Bebb: the past explaining the present
Bebb case demonstrates the hostility women had to endure in order to achieve formal equality.
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Analysis‘Has anyone heard so monstrous a proposition?’
The day the Law Society backed legislation to secure the admission of women to the legal profession.
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FeatureWomen who blazed a trail for the pioneers
The women who came before the first solicitors and barristers - earlier attempts to open up the legal profession.
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NewsNews focus: Equality still a work in progress
New Law Society research confirms that tackling unconscious bias, fair pay and promoting widespread flexible working are key elements needed to achieve gender equality in the legal profession.
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OpinionMarking 100 years of women in the law
How legislation allowing women into the law made the statute books.
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OpinionFighting for vulnerable migrant women's rights
There is a great imbalance in how the hostile environment treats women.
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OpinionTop-ranking partners must lead from the front
In another 100 years, gender equality must be a given rather than a conversation. But change has to come from the top.
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NewsInternational Women's Day: is partnership a postcode lottery?
Thousands of women lawyers reveal what is holding them back at work in landmark Law Society research. One factor is where they live.
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OpinionWomen do not need authority to achieve
The idea that women need to be empowered is patronising and implies inequality of power.
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