Women in Print 1: Design and Identities: 2 (Printing History and Culture)

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Although print is a fairly male dominated industry, I do think there are many opportunities for women, and it is an inclusive industry. I hope that more young women will look at print as a career and be welcomed into the industry just as I was nine years ago.” Yolande Bonhomme was another prominent woman printing in Paris. She began printing on her own following her husband’s death in 1522. Estimates of her output range from 136 to 200 publications before her death in 1557. In 1526, she became the first woman to publish the Bible and she later joined forces with Charlotte Guillard to demand better quality paper from the papermakers’ guild. These changes will impact on women in management, sales, support and administrative roles. If a woman is responsible for dropping off and collecting up school age children, the ability to work from home and for longer hours with no commute could be a great advantage. Equally, if men are asked to work from home more, they may be seen at the school gates more and that could free up their partner or spouse to work away or for longer. Interest in women and their involvement in printing dates from the 1970s, when Alison Adburgham’s study of Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria was published. 3 The subject of ‘“Second Wave” Feminist Printers in Britain’, the final contribution to this volume, is contemporary with Adburgham’s 1972 study. In it Jess Baines surveys the feminist printing workshops in Britain established in the 1970s, and their progress into the early twenty-first century. The ‘do-it-yourself’ ethos of the feminist movement was allied to a desire to reclaim the conventionally male-dominated spaces of print production processes. Using interviews with participants, and archival material related to the printshops in London, Manchester and Sheffield, Baines explores the social and political landscape in which these screen-printing and offset-lithography printshops were established and run.

The acceptance of remote and more flexible working enforced by the pandemic certainly creates a working environment that women - as the most traditional carers of children and elderly parents - can thrive in. The 9-5 routine with daily commute has morphed into a more fluid work day where women can more easily balance the demands on their time. One can only hope that the tradition of full-time office working does not re-emerge and that more flexible arrangements will continue for women to stay in the workplace for longer and therefore further their careers.”Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the thirteenth century onwards. At the height of the Second World War in London, Vee Sedge is trying to keep her teenage charge Noel on an even keel. When Vee witnesses an accident, she is drawn to a precipice that threatens to reveal both her and Noel for who they really are. Warm, witty and full of wisdom for navigating personal problems within a global crisis. The Best Things I feel like a lot of women are raised to be very humble, and when people give us compliments, we’re supposed to be like, ‘Oh, no, it’s not that big a deal’,” said Sutanto. “Yesterday, my husband said to our five-year-old, ‘Mama did an amazing thing, she is certified the funniest female author in an entire country’. And my five-year-old was like, wow, and I said ‘Oh, no, Papa is just exaggerating’. He said, ‘I’m literally not’, and then it hit me and I had to have a moment because that’s just too big. I needed to have a moment to let it sink in.” The day is marked globally on 8 March, and aims to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards.

In broadsheet newspapers, new books by men received 12 per cent more review coverage than those by women. And comparable books published at the same time by Neil Gaiman and Joanne Harris, and Matt Haig and Rowan Coleman, proved the men had widespread coverage when launched, while the women had much less.Elizabeth Corbet Yeats: Dun Emer and Cuala Presses and Irish ‘Art Printing’, 1903–40 (Angela Griffith)