Titlebook: Behind the Wireless; A History of Early W Kate Murphy Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Gender Studies.Women‘s

易受刺激

,‘You Feel Their Personal Touch’: Women Broadcasters,y: the garden expert Marion Cran, the feminist writer Ray Strachey and the housewife Mrs Edna Thorpe. As well as a discussion on the programme ., the problematic experiment of the short-lived female announcer Sheila Borrett is contrasted with the popularity of Olga Collett, the BBC’s first woman outside broadcaster.

世俗

小隔间

EWER

Book 2016lurking behind the façade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay, and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new opportunities for women. .

吼叫

without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks),

PON

危险

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-920-3oining the BBC. The BBC’s commitment to welfare is also analysed in terms of staff loyalty and cohesion. The chapter compares the BBC with other large interwar organisations and concludes that it was a dynamic place to work.

门窗的侧柱

prick-test

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375017rimination, if any, they faced. It also places their success in the context of other high-flying career women of the period. The chapter also considers the impact of the professionalisation of broadcasting on BBC women’s careers.

ARCHE