Margaret Damer Dawson
Women were not permitted into some professions and most married women were not allowed to work at all, plus, no woman could vote. Yet in this time, before Britain joined the War, Margaret Damer Dawson founded the Women’s Police Service. The children in Year 3 of St Paul’s Primary School in Brighton: those who are 7 and 8, undertook a special project to explore how women came to join the Women’s Police Service, and all about Margaret Damer Dawson, who was actually born in Hove.
They looked at the life of this extraordinary pioneer, and also the other women whose spirit changed history, and paved the way for women to be accepted in the Police Force today.
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