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From women operators to technical assistants: women in the BBC's wartime engineering division.

Men have long dominated the engineering professions, with women's lower participation rates often explained as a disinclination—downplaying how organisational structures actively exclude women. The Second World War provides ample opportunity to explore women's large-scale entry into engineering fiel...

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Published in:Women's History Review Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 580 - 603
Main Author: Terkanian, Kate
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2022
Subjects:
Women in engineering
British Broadcasting Corp.
Transmitters (Communication)
Control rooms
Oral history
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