Reaction to the dismissal of headteacher for being unmarried and pregnant
- Title
- Reaction to the dismissal of headteacher for being unmarried and pregnant
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 22 Jun 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:04:27
- Description
- Interview with Margaret Bramall, National Council of One Parent Families, on her anger at the dismissal of Margaret Jones - headmistress of Hedley Walter School in Brentwood, Essex - after becoming pregnant out of wedlock. She speaks of her competence in the job, whether it would have happened had she been a man, and the impression on the children at the school.
- Contributors
- Margaret Bramall
- Keywords
- Pregnancy; Teachers; Dismissal from employment; Educational administrators; Margaret Jones; Marital status; Single mothers
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