Today we are accustomed to seeing female police officers, barristers and judges, but this only came about through more than a century of struggle. Stephen Wade traces the history of the fight for equality and professional status through the lives of pioneering women in the legal system, including Edith Smith, the first woman police officer to be sworn in; Lilian Wyles, the first female chief inspector; and the remarkable judge Rose Heilbron.
The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers until the 1920s. The Justice Women traces the social history of the women working in courts, prisons and police forces up to the 1970s. Their history includes the stories of the first barristers, but also the less well-known figures such as women working in probation and in law courts.
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