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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1892
May Abraham
,
Clara Collet
,
Eliza Orme
, and
Margaret Irwin
were appointed as Assistant Commissioners to the Royal Commission on Labour.
Spring 1893
Home Secretary
Lord Asquith
appointed
May Abraham
and
Mary Paterson
as the first women factory inspectors.
1895
The
Dangerous Trades Committee
was established, with Member of Parliament
Harold Tennant
as Chair. It included one of the first women inspectors,
May Abraham
.
17 January 1917
A
Women's Service
demonstration was held in the Albert Hall to appeal to women to engage in war work, and to display their determination to
go on doing all that was needed.
View reference
Fraser, Helen.
Women and War Work
. G. A. Shaw, 1918.
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