Women at Work on London’s Transport 1905-1978

Description

This evocative collection of images charts the history of women at work on London’s transport, from a typist employed by the District Railway in 1905, to the first women bus and tube drivers in the mid-1970s. The outbreak of the First World War necessitated the real beginnings of the female workforce that would rise to greater prevalence in the Second World War, twenty-one years later. After the war ended in 1945, women were recalled back to continue in the jobs they had been doing so well. However, it was not until 1974 and 1975 that laws were finally passed to give women equal rights at work. Anna Rotundaro is a curator at the London Transport Museum and this collection of photographs has been selected from the museum’s archives, providing a fascinating and valuable record of the women who moved London in the twentieth century.