20. Is the law gender blind?
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
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The Changes in Women in the Victorian Age
The Victorian age, which sits between 1823 here and 1923 there, is traditionally been regarded as a regressive period for women. But the First World War was considered to be a great disruptor, which then ushered in a new age, new freedoms, new rights for women - the roaring 20s. As always, of course, on Lady killers, it's much more complicated than that. Women both lost and won rights over the course of the 19th century. On one hand, there was legislation which specifically criminalised abortion and restricted the ability of single mothers to hold the fathers of their illegitimate children to account. By the turn of the 20th century advances in artificial contraception and also expanding
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