Gillian Craig discusses the difficulties finding work as a young unmarried doctor in the 1950s, with Amanda Howe.

Acceptable roles?

"Of course, general practice was always the thing I was after, and asked around, applied for various GP jobs, and including, um, one, which was actually, included friends of my parents who were both in practice, asked them if you’d like me to joining, absolutely nobody would accept a woman.  It was sort of fifty-, ’58, ’59, ’60, so in ’60, I can’t remember quite how, I joined a practice in Kensington, and was there from 1960 to ’66, with Mary Hellier who was very well known because she’d been practising all through the war, on her own, and Elizabeth Burt was the other one, and I joined them, and was there until ’66, when I got married"