Mia Levitin

Are we still prejudiced against professional women?

Two books highlight the hostility directed against working women in the 20th century — and how far feminism still has to go

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  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

    Jane Robinson

    Doubleday, £20

  • Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

    Helen Lewis

    Cape, pp. 340, £16

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