Women's Engineering Society

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Occupation Ray Strachey
Philippa Strachey was also active in the bureau, which shifted after the war to dealing with the problems of women newly unemployed because of men returning from the armed forces. Edith Lyttelton joined in the...

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1919: The Women's Engineering Society was founded....

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1919

The Women's Engineering Society was founded. Its first secretary was electrical engineer Caroline Haslett , who went on to found the Electrical Association for Women in 1924.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
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“About WES - who we are”. Women’s Engineering Society.

1924: British electrical engineer Caroline Haslett...

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1924

British electrical engineer Caroline Haslett (1895-1957), who had already been first secretary of the Women's Engineering Society (from 1919) and was later to be its president, founded the Electrical Association for Women .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Electricity Council,. Electricity Supply in Great Britain: A Chronology. Electricity Council, 1973.
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Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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