The education of women for citizenship: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the British Federation of Business and Professional Women 1930–1959

Perriton, Linda

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“…The extent to which those who learn of the biased historical origins of HRD in colleges and universities are influenced to shape current practice is an area worthy of future study. Historians, such as Perriton (2009), are starting to make important contributions to highlight the significant, yet largely under acknowledged or overlooked role of women's organizations as providers of training and development in the pre-Second World War period. Our findings support the position advocated by L. Bierema (2009) and others (e.g., Gedro & Mizzi, 2014) to reject contemporary "HRD's narrow masculine rational orientation that is endangering the field's relevance and impact" (L. Bierema, 2009, p. 86) to consider a broader perspective of the development of human resources within a specific historical and cultural context.…”

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Asilomar: A Historical Study of the Role of the YWCA in Women’s Leadership Development as an Absent Narrative in the History of HRD

Bartlett

Madsen

Valesano

et al. 2022

Human Resource Development Review

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The dominant narrative on the history of training and development, especially in the United States, reflects entrenched gender bias with little acknowledgment of human resource development (HRD) designed for and delivered by women. The role of women’s organizations as forces for social change, advocates for gender equality, and providers of leadership development are significant areas of HRD history largely ignored in the literature. This historical study considers archival records on the former YWCA Asilomar Conference Grounds, near Monterey, California which was the first conference training facility owned by a women’s organization in the US. The study is focused on the years 1912–1951 when Asilomar hosted camps, conferences, meetings, and other events incorporating core elements of training, leadership development, and career coaching. The findings of substantial efforts directed to women’s leadership development and training are presented along with discussion on the influence of overlooked narratives related to the history of HRD on research and practice.

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Asilomar: A Historical Study of the Role of the YWCA in Women’s Leadership Development as an Absent Narrative in the History of HRD

Bartlett

Madsen

Valesano

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Human Resource Development Review

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“…The Women's Institutes (WI) were primarily rural and exurban and tended towards a small-c conservatism in outlook. 35 The NFWI professed to be 'the largest women's organization in England and Wales' and, as such, asserted the right for their views to be taken seriously. And, on the subject of whether the state should pay for IVF, they had strong views.…”

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Not a Priority: Infertile Women and the Symbolic Politics of IVF in 1980s Britain

Beers

2022

Gender & History

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This article considers the early debates over state funding for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment following the birth of Louise Brown in 1978 as a lens through which to re‐evaluate attitudes towards womanhood, maternity and sexuality in 1980s Britain. The state's reluctance to devote resources to IVF reflected, in no small part, the financial imperatives on an overstretched National Health Service. Beyond financial considerations, the question of IVF funding sparked deeply gendered debates over the politics and social significance of motherhood and mothering, and the state's role in family planning and maternal and child welfare. In short, debates over IVF operated as a form of symbolic politics. Stakeholders – including patients’ advocates, women's associations, feminist activists and religious leaders – drew a clear link between the female body and the body politic and sought to articulate a policy towards both IVF treatment and infertile women more broadly that reflected their understanding of women's place within modern British society. Despite holding widely divergent views about gender, sexuality and motherhood, women's and religious groups found common ground in opposing state funding of IVF. This coalition facilitated the state's decision not to prioritise funding for IVF even as neighbouring countries, including Germany and France, embraced the procedure to help combat demographic decline.

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“…The NFBPWC sought to equip women with formal meeting skills and training in public speaking to prepare them for participation in public life. 120 It is unsurprising that demonstrators were eager to join the NFBPWC as Caroline Haslett was the organisation's vice-president from 1936 and became the president in 1950.…”

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‘On the fringe of the Technical World’: female electrical appliance demonstrators in interwar Scotland

Peters

2021

Women's History Review

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This article examines the role of female electrical appliance 'demonstrators' in interwar Scotland. During this period, manufacturers launched a variety of domestic electrical appliances into a consumer market already saturated with solid fuel and gasfired equivalents. To tackle the fierce competition the electrical industry deployed female demonstrators, originally trained in domestic science, to entertain and educate audiences across Scotland.Notably, Glasgow-based demonstrators, and representatives at Scotland's domestic science colleges, expressed an early interest in working with the Electrical Association for Women, to benefit from the organisation's modern and empowering image. This article compares demonstrators' understanding of the purpose of their role with the views of consumers, domestic science experts and those working in the electrical industry. An insight into the vital, yet forgotten, 'mediating' role which demonstrators performed between the electrical industry and consumers adds to the wider discussion about women and their participation in a male-dominated workplace throughout the interwar years.

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The education of women for citizenship: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the British Federation of Business and Professional Women 1930–1959

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Asilomar: A Historical Study of the Role of the YWCA in Women’s Leadership Development as an Absent Narrative in the History of HRD

Asilomar: A Historical Study of the Role of the YWCA in Women’s Leadership Development as an Absent Narrative in the History of HRD

Not a Priority: Infertile Women and the Symbolic Politics of IVF in 1980s Britain

‘On the fringe of the Technical World’: female electrical appliance demonstrators in interwar Scotland

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