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Topical Budget 478-2: 200,000 Unemployed Women (1920)
 

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Title: "200,000 UNEMPLOYED WOMEN. Mrs MacArthur and Miss Bondfield, Women's Federation, plan insurance schemes of 18/- a week for 6d whether ill or well".

National Federation of Women Workers protests over women's unemployment. Women, wearing white aprons stand in front of very large banner for the Federation. Medium shot and close shot of Mrs MacArthur (on right hand side) and Miss Margaret Bondfield (first woman to hold a Cabinet position in British Government) at desk talking and sorting through paperwork.