The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW) was one of the earliest British women's organisations. The society was established in 1859 by...
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Langham Place Group (category Women's organisations based in England)
mainly to do with women's rights, access to higher education and wage work (e.g. the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (S.P.E.W.). Jessie...
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Mary Harris Smith (category British women accountants)
of the first bookkeeping classes run by the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW) in 1860. Smith worked for a mercantile firm in the City...
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the free dictionary. SPEW may refer to: Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, one of the earliest British women's organisations Society for the...
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Lady's companion (section End of the lady's companion)
only other such options; hence the formation of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859.) The companion's role was to spend her time with...
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College of Midwives, founded 1881 Socialist Women's Network Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, established 1859 Society of Women Artists,...
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became the first director of the society. Its early form has been compared to that of the London Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. Lette-Verein...
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Phoebe Blyth (category Women of the Victorian era)
the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was founded in London by Jessie Boucherett, Barbara Bodichon and Adelaide Anne Proctor to promote the...
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with particularly large growth seen in the 20th century. Largely seen as a boon for industrial society, women in the workforce contribute to a higher national...
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co-founder of Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859, editor of Englishwoman's Review (1866–70), co-founder of Women's Employment Defence...
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Emily Faithfull (category English women's rights activists)
on advancing women's employment opportunities. The Circle was responsible for forming the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859. In 1864...
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writer on behalf of unemployed women Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, unit in First World War Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW), formed...
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The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) is a UK-based Christian charity. Founded in 1698 by Thomas Bray, it has worked for over 300 years...
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The employment of autistic people is a social issue. People with autism have one of the lowest employment rates among workers with disabilities, with...
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Jessie Boucherett (category English women activists)
helped found the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859. This became in 1926 the Society for Promoting the Training of Women which today...
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First-wave feminism (redirect from First wave of feminism)
the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women to promote the training and employment of women. The society is one of the earliest British women's organisations...
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English Woman's Journal (redirect from The English Women's Journal)
Among the group's activities was the establishment of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW). SPEW aimed at preparing young women for wider...
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Lady Mary Feilding (category British women philanthropists)
charitable organisations including the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. The Guild was wound up in 2020 when the last of its residential properties...
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Maria Rye (category History of women in Canada)
Rye joined the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women on its foundation, but, disapproving of the women's franchise movement which the leading members...
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Idylls of the King. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded. The Mary Institute is founded in Missouri. Tidskrift för hemmet, the first...
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and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (the Langham Place Group). It took as model the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (category National Society for Women's Suffrage)
Garrett joined the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, which organised Blackwell's lectures on "Medicine as a Profession for Ladies" and set...
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Emma Fitch (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
number of feminist and charitable organisations, including the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, the College for Working Women, and the Charity...
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creation of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW). Smith's Married Women's Property committee collected 26,000 signatures to change the law[clarification...
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, is an Indian...
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Thomas Hare (political reformer) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
member of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, and from 1867 was on the committee of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women...
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Berners Street (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
also the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. At No. 9 is the Berners Women's Club—one of the first experiments in this direction. In the same...
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Austin Holyoake (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
before the curtain to receive the plaudits of the audience.' In 1859, he assisted the founders of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in establishing...
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as an office for one of the first organisations of British women, the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women and its publication the English Woman's...
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Traditionally, Arab societies have been patriarchal. This has often resulted in women having limited access to education, employment opportunities, and...
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