Catalogue description Records of the Six Point Group including Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan Papers

This record is held by London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library

Details of 5/SPG
Reference: 5/SPG
Title: Records of the Six Point Group including Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan Papers
Description:

Minutes of the Executive Committee (1935-37, 1939-80), AGM papers and reports (1931-79), papers and correspondence files of the treasurer, hon. secretaries, chairs and vice-chairs (1932-77), papers of the Hampshire (1964-7) and Northwest (1973-7) Branches, administration papers including publicity material, financial items and correspondence regarding the dissolution of the group, correspondence, printed materials and papers related to various campaigns (1937-1976), weekend conference materials (1948-65) and meetings papers (1943-79), leaflets of and correspondence with other organisations (1938-79), newsletters and circulars (1941-79), issues of Time and Tide (1921-29) and press cuttings (1920s-1970s), correspondence of the hon. secretary (1950-81)

Date: 1919-1981
Related material:

The Women's Library also holds the records of the Married Women's Association (5/MWA), and the Equal Pay Campaign (6/EPC).

Held by: London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Six Point Group, 1921-1980

Physical description: 28 Boxes
Access conditions:

This collection is open for consultation. Intending readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers now held by the Women's Library came from the president of the group who also collected records from other long-standing members of the group.

Subjects:
  • Womens employment
  • Womens rights
Administrative / biographical background:

After the granting of limited franchise to women in 1918, the issues which women's organisations now had to deal with widened considerably to encompass general issues of women's social and economic status and their lack of equality with men under the law and in the professions. The Six Point Group was founded in 1921 by Lady Rhondda with six very specific aims in mind: 1 satisfactory legislation on child assault; 2 satisfactory legislation for the widowed mother; 3 satisfactory legislation for the unmarried mother and her child; 4 equal rights of guardianship for married parents; 5 equal pay for teachers and 6 equal opportunities for men and women in the civil service. These later evolved into six general points of equality for women: political, occupational, moral, social, economic and legal. During the 1920s, the group campaigned on strictly equality-based principles and was active in trying to have the League of Nations pass an Equal Rights Treaty. This was in direct contrast to other women's groups such as the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, which supported protectionist legislation which applied only to women such as an 'Endowment of Motherhood' which was intended to be paid to women in order to ensure their financial independence. Much of its work was done through its journal, Time and Tide. From 1933, along with the Open Door Council, it spearheaded the movement for the right of married women to work. It was responsible for establishing the Income Tax Reform Council and in 1938, the Married Women's Association. During the Second World War, they campaigned on issues such as female volunteers in the Civil Defence Services receiving two-thirds the man's pay and compensation rate provided for by the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act of 1939 by traditional constitutional methods: deputations to the appropriate government ministers, public rallies and letters to major newspapers. They were also closely involved in the Equal Compensation Campaign from 1941 to 1943 and subsequently had representatives beside the Open Door Council and the Fawcett Society on the committee of the Equal Pay Campaign from 1944 to ensure equal pay in the Civil Service. They continued to have a significant political influence after the war, taking part in the protest to have the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act changed to give married women more financial protection. From 1967, they played an active part in the co-ordination of other women's groups on a number of issues through that decade and into the next. However, later in the 1970s the group declined through its failure to recruit younger women and went into abeyance in 1980, finally dissolving itself in 1983.

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