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Flex Pioneers

Many people have contributed to the flexible working rights and practices that we experience today.
When I returned to work after my first maternity leave in 1992, my options were very limited.  Part-time could be found; hours in almost every setting were fixed and inflexible; working from home was barely known.  Office work still involved a landline on the desk, often a typewriter rather than a pc, and few people were using email.  Meetings were in person.
The transformation of work since then was brought about by people who both responded to necessity and embraced possibility.  These Pioneers are politicians, campaigners, employers and thinkers.  They asked what needed to change, to enable women with care responsibilities to play a full part in the world of work; and for men to become equal partners at home.  And they set about making those changes happen.
These interviews bring you their voices, their memories, their experiences.  What happened, why and what next?

Pam Walton

Pam Walton was a founding member of the Job Sharing Project, later New Ways to Work. After being refused a job-share role in the late ’70s, she joined the Equal Opportunities Commission and published the UK’s first job-sharing research. At New Ways to Work she became an authority on flexible working and its practical application. Her insights helped shape the government Work Life Balance Campaign in 2000.

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Lucy Daniels

Lucy Daniels found vital support as a new mother through the Clapham Working Mothers Group. From this local group of volunteers grew a national movement, which she went on to lead as founding Director of the Working Mothers Association. During the 1980s and early 1990s, WMA supported thousands of women via their local groups and helpline, promoted family-friendly employment practices, and campaigned for better childcare provision and workplace rights.

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Shirley Conran

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Madeleine Starr

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Emma Stewart and Karen Mattison

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