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Women in
Publishing works to promote the status of women working in publishing
and related trades by helping them to develop their careers.
Through the monthly WiP meetings there are opportunities to learn more
about your area of work, share information and expertise, give and receive
support, and partake in practical training for career and personal development.
Our activities are open to all women interested in publishing.
Women in Publishing began in March 1979. The first open meeting of what
was to become WiP was in December 1979 in an upstairs room at the Globe
pub, opposite Baker Street tube station. The meeting was chaired by
Anne McDermid and the discussion led by Liz Calder and Ursula Owen,
co-founder of Virago with Carmen Callil. About one hundred women attended
the first meeting. Further meetings led to a more formal declaration
of aims, and to the election of the first WiP committee.
Monthly meetings embody what WiP is all about. The second Wednesday
of each month, members and non-members meet to network and learn about
a specific aspect of the publishing industry.
OUR AIMS
To provide a forum for the discussion of ideas, trends and subjects
of interest to women in the publishing trades
To encourage networking and mutual support among women
To provide
opportunities for sharing information and expertise
To support and publicise women's achievements and successes
To promote the status of women within publishing
These founding aims - to encourage networking, to provide opportunities
for sharing information and ideas and to offer training for career and
personal development - still stand in the so-called 'post-feminist'
era, where women dominate the publishing industry by sheer numbers,
but have barely broken through the glass ceiling.
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