When a woman is not a woman: how the Ministry of Pensions constructed gender in the 1950s

from The National Archives Podcast Series · host Dr Louise Chambers

Dr Louise Chambers investigates why, in the 1950s, the Ministry of Pensions was inundated with requests by individuals to change their gender identity on their employment and pension records.

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