ABSTRACT
Colonial administration, as we have already noted in Chapter 2, was essentially a men’s club. Even at a time when women were entering a wide range of professions and particularly government jobs, which in Britain followed the 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, they were officially barred from any part of the overseas Civil Service. The pattern today is very similar; of all the professional employment opportunities available to women, perhaps the greatest difficulties and the most severe forms of discrimination are to be found in the international sphere, including development planning for the Third World.
