Multi-Tasking Women From the 1920s to the 2020s
The use of gender stereotypes in the media only serves to reinforce this inequality.
By Katie McElvanney, Curator Slavonic and East European Collections
One of our key roles as curators is to explore the contemporary resonance of the Library’s collections in national and international contexts. I was acutely reminded of this two weeks ago when showing an item at an event connected to the exhibition, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights. Together with colleagues from the European, Americas and Oceania collections, we each selected and discussed an item that we felt spoke to the themes of the exhibition and went beyond its UK focus, before joining the audience for an informal Q&A session.