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Women Servants of the State 1870-1938.: A History of Women in the Civil Service. Foreword by the Right Hon. The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley K. G.
by MARTINDALE, Hilda
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd,, 1938. First edition, first impression, a history of women in the British civil service, a defence of their role, and an exposition of the systemic disadvantages they face. Hilda Martindale (1875-1952) joined the Home Office in 1907 as a factory inspector and later moved to the Treasury, where she would remain until retirement. Martindale was a vocal advocate for improving working conditions in the civil service, particularly for women, as well as for the removal of the marriage bar. The study "presented the case for women civil servants. Martindale was critical of a system which worked to women's disadvantage, and she highlighted the prejudice of second-rate men, but she was careful to give credit by name to those men in the civil service who she believed had encouraged women" (ODNB). Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. Extremities a little sunned, edges slightly spotted, very good in like jacket, price-clipped, a little rubbed and toned with slight nicks and chips at extremities.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 158975
- Title
- Women Servants of the State 1870-1938.
- Author
- MARTINDALE, Hilda
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1938
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