“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Women had worked at heavy jobs for centuries alongside men.21 They were now barred from heavy, manual, wage-earning labour, only to carry… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There are no memorials to the thousands of women who died prematurely through extreme physical hardship. These were the women who produced… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Before these changes in policy the economic activity rates for both men and women had been recorded as equal at about 98%;… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“If a woman joins the modern industrialised economy she must be seen to be like a man and it is taken for… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Until power structures change so that women are recognised and rewarded, gain full access to the means of economic independence and take… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The strength for the worker in the new system was in numbers; many men and women resisted, organised, suffered and died to… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Fertility is seen as a female ‘problem’; whether discouraged or enforced by the vagaries of political, demographic and cultural decisions, it must… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The fact of women’s separate biological capacities has been used as a pretext for excluding women from the centres of power. But… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The BFHI was designed to protect and promote exclusive breastfeeding, but its provisions always included the acceptance of medically indicated replacement feeding. When this… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Babies who do not sleep ‘through the night’ alone in a cot, as soon as possible after birth, are seen as a ‘problem’.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“a product presented as ‘closest to mother’s milk’ might actually include potatoes, fungi and beans, depending on the price of course.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to insist on breastfeeding because nurses and physicians are eager to have the infant show the greatest possible gain.”12” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In some countries, pumping has become the default method of expression, and hand expression has become an afterthought. It would be safer if it… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“The parts of the brain which influence social and emotional relationships do not develop automatically but in response to the way a baby is… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding mothers, sleeping by their babies in three-sided cribs with the open side joined to the adult bed, respond quite differently from mothers whose… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the same way, breastfeeding is seen as a woman’s topic. Though women are often told whether or not they should do it, it… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It seems likely that if you are told that your vagina is so ill-designed that it must be cut open to perform a normal… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time can greatly… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is now known that babies’ brains develop according to how much they are loved.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
