http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2387:from-crossroads-and-the-rag-trade-to-made-in-dagenham-event-celebrates-working-women-on-tv&catid=24:soap-news&Itemid=27A nostalgia trip celebrating television’s portrayal of women in the work place in the 60s and 70s is being laid on by academics from the University of Warwick and De Montfort University.
The free event, called Career Girls on the Small Screen, is at the Phoenix Arts Centre., Phoenix Square, Leicester, on Saturday afternoon, 8th October, and has been organised by Helen Wheatley and Rachel Moseley from the Department of Film and Television at University of Warwick and Helen Wood from De Montfort University.
...There will also be a screened conversation with Hazel Adair, the maker of the drama Compact, which was about women working in the magazine industry. Hazel was also responsible for Crossroads - which revolved around a widow, Meg Richardson (top, right), who had single-handedly opened a motel in the grounds of her former home, it made an international star of leading actress Noele Gordon - and the big-screen version of Emergency Ward 10 which the TV series made a household name of Jill Browne as Nurse Carole Young.
Women at Work - The early years:
* 1957 - Nurses and senior female staff are seen in ATV's Emergency Ward 10.
* 1961 - Harpers West One. The female management and shop workers are seen in this ATV department store drama.
* 1961 - Working class girls make the most of life in The Rag Trade, a BBC drama which was later revived by LWT.
* 1962 - The women working in the magazine trade are highlighted in the BBC serial Compact.
* 1964 - The sole female owner of a Midland Motel is seen in Crossroads, a large number of female staff are also seen in the form of secretaries, cleaners and receptionists. Later the show also boasts the first female garage mechanic in soap.
* 1969 - independent girls about town - or in this case Liverpool city - in sitcom The Liver Birds.
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