Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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28 June 1940: The Womanpower Committee (WPC) was formed,...
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28 June 1940
The Womanpower Committee
(WPC) was formed, with Irene Ward
as chairman, with the purpose of influencing government policy.
Smith, Harold L. “The Womanpower Problem in Britain During the Second World War”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
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, No. 4, Dec. 1984, pp. 925-45.
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Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.
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28 October 1941: The Womanpower Committee divided equally...
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28 October 1941
The Womanpower Committee
divided equally for and against a resolution stating that it had no objection to conscription of women as well as men.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
