The ‘awkward’ squad: British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years

During the interwar years, gendered inequalities in newspaper newsrooms and social prejudice against ‘mobile’ women combined to force who wanted work as foreign correspondents seek alternative routes raising their voices on international affairs. Women’s reportage can be found a range of platforms from mainstream press early journals humanitarian communication literary magazines. When reported for major newspapers they were often precariously freelance nature treatment by hierarchies emphasised their, all women’s, outsider status when it came politics. Women's journalism, rooted tradition, concentrated telling lives minor characters ordinary people, offers insights into individual human suffering at time great anxiety. Their writing, anonymous or overlooked niche publications, represents missing actor public opinion this critical time.