Flora Watkins

Never the doctor, always the nurse: the fate of women in post-war Britain

For decades, undereducated girls were thwarted before they even started in the workplace, living in the slipstream of men and drip-fed with a sense of their own uselessness

Photograph used in a recruitment campaign for nurses at the time of the founding of the NHS. [Getty Images]
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