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A Woman's Place? Series 1

Are women suited to heavy manual work? This documentary seeks to challenge the previously accepted traditional roles of women in the workplace. (1978)

Are women suited to heavy manual work? This documentary seeks to challenge the previously accepted traditional roles of women in the workplace. Interviewed are women who have chosen careers as a painter, a carpenter, a chemist and a trade unionist. The programme also asks why some tasks that women do in the home should be a male preserve outside it. (1978)

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25 minutes

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Mon 9 Nov 1981 14:00
BBC Two except East, South East & Yorkshire

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Credit

Producer Suzanne Davies

Broadcasts

  • Tue 30 May 1978 19:05
    BBC Two
  • Sun 18 Mar 1979 23:50
    BBC One
  • Tue 12 Feb 1980 15:30
    BBC Two
  • Mon 9 Nov 1981 14:00
    BBC Two except East, South East & Yorkshire

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Second Wave Feminism Collection

Second Wave Feminism Collection

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