313:. This was presented to the 1949 Liberal Party Assembly. The report called for equal pay for women, equal training opportunities, better pay and more freedom for nurses, a much greater provision of day nurseries for working mothers, and a reform of the divorce law to give a woman an equal share of the marital home after a break-up. Gorsky told the Assembly: "It's easier to get a wife out than to get a tenant out". The Assembly adopted the report as party policy, making Liberal policy on women comfortably more radical and forward looking than that of the Labour party. She was elected to the Liberal Party Council. In 1949 she was a Liberal candidate, alongside
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Television Programmes at the BBC. In 1963, she became head of family programmes, and one of the first women to hold an executive position in the corporation. She spearheaded programmes which introduced cookery personality
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contractor's beginnings in 1967, and the two women were appointed to run the children's programmes department, although
Stephens resigned after only two years when the company ran into difficulties. Before departing Stephens (with Whitby) commissioned
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Election. Again this was not a promising seat. The Liberals had not won here since 1918 though at the last election, the Liberal candidate polled nearly 20%. She could not match this and again finished third.
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Liberal Party Organisation. However, due to the lack of funds in the Liberal party, she agreed to work unpaid. Her work involved preparing the party for the next general election which took place in 1970.
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Election. It was an unpromising seat that the Liberals had not won since 1923 and had not stood a candidate since 1929. Although she came third she did manage to retain her
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Election. This was another unpromising seat that the Liberal party had never won. She again finished third with 15% of the vote. Later, in 1950, she was Liberal candidate for the
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Liberal party, whose candidate at the last general election had polled under 10%. Her vote in the by-election was just as poor;
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