Image: Christine Eade, the 成人快手's first woman correspondent in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, in April 1973.
![Six seated women smile at the camera. They are wearing dresses with extravagant halo-like headdresses.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqkvs.jpg)
![Women telephone operators seated at their equipment, which have large fixed microphones. All wear dresses, many with pearls.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06r9jqs.jpg)
![A 1930s canteen. All of the people in the canteen are women.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqhtc.jpg)
![A slightly staged photo inside a library - one woman is on a telephone, the others study books studiously.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqhvx.jpg)
![A woman adjusts the dress of another seated woman. All wear very brightly coloured floral dresses. The set is chintzy Victorian in design.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqhwx.jpg)
![A woman at a film editing station reviews the footage.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqhzs.jpg)
![Florence Milnes writes a note at her very tidy desk.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqj4c.jpg)
![Long rows of women typists at their workstations.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqj7t.jpg)
![A strikingly angled image of a woman wearing headphones transcribing a telephone call on her typewriter.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqjc7.jpg)
![A woman standing discusses a script with three seated men. A lozenge shaped 成人快手 microphone hangs from the ceiling.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqjh5.jpg)
![A school photo-style picture of a netball team - 21 women in three rows. All wear white shirts with ties.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqjkf.jpg)
![An industrious scene - 11 women and a 1 teenage boy sort the post at two large tables. Sacks of mail await on the floor.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqjn2.jpg)
![A woman on the telephone is shown a letter by another. Her desk is full of newspapers and books.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqjsf.jpg)
![Two men and two women gathered around a microphone with scripts in hand.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqjyx.jpg)
![Three women aiming rifles at a rifle range.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqk0v.jpg)
![Sallie Clarke smiles at the camera, having won the competition.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqk21.jpg)
![Eight women gathered around the male singer Sasha Distel](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqk98.jpg)
![Two women at the gramophone, one supervising, the other operating the machine.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqkcb.jpg)
![Two women being measured by wardrobe staff with tape measures. The women being dressed has a very 1960s beehive hairstyle.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqkfz.jpg)
![Three women gathered around the microphone. The female producer, standing, appears to have told a joke.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400xn/p06rqkj3.jpg)
A gallery of women at work and leisure at the 成人快手 from the 1930s to the 1960s
Image: Christine Eade, the 成人快手's first woman correspondent in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, in April 1973.
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