Education Act 1944
The Education Act 1944 removed the marriage bar in teaching and gave working-class girls access to high school education.
Frances Moran
Frances Moran was the first woman law professor in Ireland.
DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill (1928)
DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill – the “Well of Loneliness” case – gave legal and social visibility to lesbianism.
Edwards v A-G of Canada (1930)
Edwards v A-G of Canada, one of the so-called ‘Persons cases’ established that women were people in law for the first time.
Margaret Kidd
Margaret Kidd was the first woman called to the Faculty of Advocates.
The Foundation of the Association of Women Solicitors
‘The history of the AWS should serve as an inspiration and a warning. Impressively a small cohort of women solicitors… had succeeded in founding an organisation to support each other, had maintained it through economic recessions and war… But its subsequent gradual demise demonstrates how an organisation can all but disappear through a laudable desire for expansion coupled with an unrealistic reliance on income which was not self-generated.’
Elizabeth Cruickshank
Matrimonial Causes Act 1923
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 equalised the grounds for divorce for men and women.
Carrie Morrison
Carrie Morrison was the first woman admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Averil Deverell
Averil Deverell was the first woman barrister to practise in Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales.
The Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, 1920
The Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties recognised that women could be sworn in as constables in the police forces of England, Wales, and Scotland.