Episode 9: Sacked for Being Married - How Teachers Fought Back

In the interwar period and beyond, many women were fired from their jobs as teachers, civil servants, and clerical and post office workers, simply because they were married. In this episode, we speak to Dr Harriet Samuels about the marriage bar, and how the history of married women's unemployment is an often overlooked, yet vital part of the story of women's fight for equality.

 

Music credit: Goldfinch: Flight to the North, Axletree, Free Music Archive, CC BY 4.0