{"id":2128,"date":"2023-06-27T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redbrickbuilding.co.uk\/heritage\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:09:57","slug":"role-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redbrickbuilding.co.uk\/heritage\/role-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Six sisters – Dolly, Rose, Lil, Alice, Myrtle and Ethel, several of whom worked at Morlands December 1976.
Photo: Ann Morgan<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Those girls that came in that March intake, they all went into the stitching rooms and the training rooms. I was the only one who went into the office.
[Rosa, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in the Miss Morlands contest one year \u2013 I didn\u2019t win! We had a major newsreader who came and did the judging of Miss Morlands, and I had my hair done. But the lady who wore hotpants that year won! And she deserved it!
[Rosa, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You nominated yourself for Miss Morlands – whoever was brave enough to walk down the catwalk and be interviewed. It was a funny old time, really.
[Penny, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miss Morlands 1978 finalists – Penny Berkeley on the right
Photo: Jane Laver<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Miss Morlands finalists 1972 with Bruce Hockin – Sandra White second from the right
Photo: Lisa Parsons<\/sub>
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You always knew you wouldn\u2019t get any higher. If you had an ambition to get any higher, the highest you could get would be like Mary Stone – the manager of a particular department – but that was all you could hope for. Or, if you were in the secretarial part, become secretary to one of the directors.
[Julia, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My boss asked me once if I\u2019d be the rep for Scandinavia, and I was tempted, but I just didn\u2019t have the confidence. At the time, a woman travelling on her own, just wasn\u2019t really a sensible thing to do. And I think my mother would have had a fit if I\u2019d taken it on!
[Jackie, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a couple of lads at Strode that were the same as me, but they were taken off to do a different subject, not typing. I think they did politics or something. Why? It was deemed we didn\u2019t need to know politics and they didn\u2019t need to know how to type. I\u2019ve never been able to get my head around that one! It was the way of the world – women had had suffrage for some time by then but even then, we didn\u2019t need to know about politics. I suppose it was always assumed that your husband would tell you what to vote!
[Julia, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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