Chiefly concerning equal opportunities for women in the workplace. Including interviews with Beryl Platt, some arising from her chairmanship of the Equal Opportunities Commission. Some are annotated with comments by B P. The cuttings include the following:
‘Baroness Who to the sex barricades: Equality should begin with parents and teachers, says the new head of the EOC’, with photograph of B P, The Times, 12 January 1983;
‘Women & Training News’, published by the Manpower Services Commission, Issue 12, Autumn 1983, with an article on B P on the front cover, illustrated with a photograph of B P, entitled ‘Priorities for new EOC Chairman’;
‘EOC admits cost of sex equality at work’, Independent 9 November 1995;
‘If men want to go on living with women, it will have to be as equal partners in the economy’, The Independent 8 November 1995;
‘Use of women staff ‘the key to looming labour shortage’ ‘, 19 November 1988;
‘Career girls crack the business world with companies of their own’, Daily Mail, 6 October 1988;
‘Increase in workplace nurseries’ [1980s?]
‘Cashing in on female finance’, APEX September 1988;
‘CBI fears effects of skills shortage’, Times 3 March 1988;
‘Give career women 7-year baby break, CBI tells employers’, Times 12 March 1988;
‘We can’t end centuries of prejudice in a decade’, The Guardian 4 February 1988;
‘Baroness who aims to give the girls a break’ [concerning B P as chair of EOC], Sunday Express 31 January 1988;
‘Lady Platt, a champion of equal opportunities, asks employers to forget their old-fashioned image of jobs for the girls: Women will be there to fill the skills gap of the next decade’, with photograph of B P, The Times 11 February 1988;
‘Women of Britain can lead the way’, featuring photograph of David Trippier (Small Firms Minister), Today 17 November 1986;
‘24% rise in women working for themselves’, The Times 18 March 1985;
‘Brilliant Wasted Women: A woman’s place is at the top of the managerial tree, argues Bryan Nicholson of the Manpower Services Commission’ [no date: 1980s?];
Article entitled ‘A riddle for our times’ concerning gender bias in language, The Guardian 14 January 1983;
Department of Education and Science press release entitled ‘£50,000 grant for WISE [Women into Science and Engineering] bus: Women’s Achievement and Opportunities in Education’, 2 March 1987;
‘NUT uncovers ‘sexist and irrelevant’ job interviews’, Times Educational Supplement 13 March 1987;
‘Call for girls-only science’, Times Educational Supplement 13 March 1987.