Educating the girls!: The clerical and secretarial curriculum at Manchester High School for girls within its social context 1900-1920

• Autores: John Black
• Localización: History of education researcher, ISSN 1740-2433, Nº. 84, 2009, págs. 12-22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper explores the introduction of the commercial and secretarial currículum at Manchester High School for Girls (MHSG) from 1900 to 1920. lt is argued that the development of the commercial currículum brought about the gender differences in contemporary British schools and wa training a future workforce to fulfil the increasing demand for clerical labour. By 1900 the majority of clerical work for women was provided by the state, particularly the General Post Office (GPO) and the subsidiary Post Office Savings Bank (POSB). With the growth of commercial organizations, however, particularly the financia! ector, this demand was extenuated further after 1920.