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Title: UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

Reference number: T1968

Date: 1972

Production company: STV

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.45 mins

Description: Although women make up 1/3 of the workforce in Britain, ithe department of employment has been found that many women are unable to return to work for various reasons such as the lack of childcare facilities. Consequently they have set up a number of mobile offices throughout Glasgow to disseminate information on possible opportunities in order to tempt women back to work. Sheila Duffy presents a report on these mobile offices and their attempts to find women work.

Credits: rep. Sheila Duffy

Shotlist: Woman chatting with administrative worker in the mobile office (0.36) [trims] Reporter, Sheila Duffy, to camera in front of a department of employment mobile office on the department's scheme to help women return to work and the woman's role in the workplace (3.28) Women outside the mobile office (2.29) All trims. Leader (2.40) Reporter, Sheila Duffy, to camera in front of a department of employment mobile office on the department's scheme to help women return to work and the woman's role in the workplace (3.25) Pan of queue of women outside the mobile office (3.37) Woman chatting with administrative worker in the mobile office whilst v/o describes what kinds of job the department of employment claims it can find for women (4.09) Iv. with Mr. O'Donnell of the department on the response so far to this scheme (4.45)
[Shotlisted at 24 fps]