The spring edition of Girlistic magazine is now online, and there’s some great stuff in there – the focus is on technology (and I liked “how the internet introduced me to feminism”) but there’s also an excellent history of the pill, and an exploration of the gender stereotype of the librarian – it actually goes back to Dewey, I learnt.
An account in The Times of what would be a fascinating resource – a “correspondence magazine” shared among mothers from the mid-1930s onwards charting their pains, problems, and suggestions they made to each other … “its members were mostly middle-class housewives — educated, opinionated, excluded from careers by convention and legislation (teachers and other professionals were barred from working once married), often intellectually frustrated and harassed by the demands of household management and child-rearing.” Just in case anyone is looking for past golden ages.
Which ties neatly, if unhappily, with the news in Britain that women with children under 11 are the group most discriminated against in the workforce.
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