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SUMMARY:A Lab of One's Own: Science &amp\; Suffrage in World War One - Dr 
 Patricia Fara\, President\, British Society for the History of Science
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT : In 1919\, the year after women over 30 gained the r
 ight to vote\, the suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett declared triumphant
 ly\, ‘The war revolutionised the industrial position of women. It found 
 them serfs\, and left them free.’ Her optimism was premature. World War 
 I did benefit some British women by enabling them to take on traditionally
  male roles in science\, engineering and medicine\, but after the Armistic
 e conventional hierarchies were rapidly re-established. Concentrating on a
  small group of well-qualified scientific and medical women\, who were mar
 ginalized then as well as in the secondary literature\, I review the diffi
 culties they experienced and the work they undertook during and immediatel
 y after the War. Disappointed\, many former suffragists came to believe th
 at professional equality was more important than political emancipation.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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