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Volume 1, Issue 2
1 February 1985
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Women in Management Review & Abstracts
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Review Article| February 01 1985

Taking up the Challenge: The Pepperell Unit Available to Purchase

Elizabeth Willis
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-716X
Print ISSN: 0955-8357
© MCB UP Limited
1985
Women in Management Review & Abstracts (1985) 1 (2): 103–107.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005125

In 1952, Elizabeth Pepperell—the then Assistant Director of the Industrial Society—ran the first all‐women conference, specifically to encourage the development of women at work. Sixty attended, and thus began the Industrial Society's work for women which has been maintained ever since.

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