Whether you are on the Board or in the kitchen, a medieval peasant or modern day medic, a Victorian street-sweeper or eighteenth century hand-spinner - if you are a woman, there’s every chance you are underpaid. So why is that? Explanations vary across the centuries from women's lack of upper-body strength to the demands of motherhood and patriarchal oppression, but one thing is certain - the pay gap never closes.
Joining Philippa to discuss the history of women's work are:
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History is Philippa Gregory's radical retelling of our nation’s story – not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but a history of the millions of women missing from the record: wives and workers, viragoes and angels, female husbands, priests and pirates.
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8. Normal women...are married, divorced and single
7. Normal women...are beyond definition
6. Normal Women...are a weaker vessel
5. Normal Women...think about rape
3. Normal Women...love women
2. Normal Women...are angels
1. Normal Women...riot!
Philippa Gregory's Normal Women - Coming soon
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