Open Door Council

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Occupation Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Of all the women's organisations that EPL belonged to, she believed most strongly in the WILPF. The suffragists of this organisation, she writes, were unique in that they never swerved from their purpose of winning...
politics Vera Brittain
VB joined the newly-formed Open Door Council ; she later served on its executive.
politics Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR , with Chrystal Macmillan , Elizabeth Abbott , and Helen Archdale , founded the Open Door Councilto secure that a woman shall be free to work and protected as a worker on the...
politics Cicely Hamilton
CH returned to her work for feminist causes as a member of the Six Point Group and the Open Door Council , an organization that promoted women's right to the same working conditions and pay...

Timeline

1970: This year saw the birth of two Women's Liberation...

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1970

This year saw the birth of two Women's Liberation organisations in Britain; the Open Door Council (pursuing the economic emancipation of the woman worker) and the Six Point Group .
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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