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Working Women – in the steps of Sylvia Pankhurst

In 1906 the suffragette and journalist Sylvia Pankhurst travelled through the north of England and Scotland to find out about the lives of working women. Sylvia wrote and illustrated a series of articles about the women she met hoping to draw attention to – and change – the grind of these women’s daily lives. Inspired by Sylvia, Emma Barnett has recorded a series of features for Woman’s Hour about the lives of women working now.