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A Woman's Place? Series 1

Are women suited to heavy manual work? This documentary seeks to challenge the previously accepted traditional roles of women in the workplace. (1978)

Are women suited to heavy manual work? This documentary seeks to challenge the previously accepted traditional roles of women in the workplace. Interviewed are women who have chosen careers as a painter, a carpenter, a chemist and a trade unionist. The programme also asks why some tasks that women do in the home should be a male preserve outside it. (1978)

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25 minutes

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Mon 9 Nov 1981 14:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except East, South East & Yorkshire

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Producer Suzanne Davies

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