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SUMMARY:A lab of one’s own: science & suffrage in the First World War - 
 Patricia Fara\, Clare College
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CONTACT:Peter Watson
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by utopian dreams\, H G Wells imagined a future chara
 cterized by science\, equality and justice\; and in 1919\, the suffragist 
 leader Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly\, ‘The war revolutionised
  the industrial position of women. It found them serfs\, and left them fre
 e.’ Their optimism was premature. World War I did benefit British women 
 by enabling them to take on traditionally male roles in science\, engineer
 ing and medicine. But even though some women over 30 gained the right to v
 ote\, conventional hierarchies were rapidly re-established after the Armis
 tice. Concentrating mainly on a small group of well-qualified scientific a
 nd medical women\, marginalized at the time and also in the secondary lite
 rature\, I review the attitudes they experienced and the work they underto
 ok during and immediately after the War.
LOCATION:Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
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