Learning on ScreenWomen At Work: Jobs For The Girls
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In the past many women had to choose between having a family and pursuing a career. But now more women than ever before are combining the two. Diana MacLean reports on two British schemes where employers have had the vision to adapt conventional work patterns to meet the needs of working mothers: one involves a housewife who works with a computer terminal in her own home and the other an industrial day nursery to help out factory mums.
- Researcher Comments
- Participants in the film include: homeworker Val Sheehan and her boss Steve Shirley; and nursery founder Carole Cowan and employer Richard Wright. Also includes a brief comment from Lady Howe of the Equal Opportunities Board. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version.
- Keywords
- Children; Women; Communications; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Computers and computing
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/990
- Credits:
-
- Producer
- Annabel Olivier Wright
- Editor
- Annabel Olivier Wright
- Support services
- Annabel Olivier Wright
- Director
- Bill Metcalfe
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Camera
- Crystal Films
- Presenter
- Diana MacLean
- Cutter
- Elizabeth Ledward
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Jennifer Lucas
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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