Savings Bank Department

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1871: The British Government began employing women...

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1871

The British Government began employing women as clerical workers.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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1875: The Savings Bank Department, a division of...

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1875

The Savings Bank Department , a division of the Post Office , was the second government division to hire women clerks; approximately thirty women were hired that year.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
166

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