Not Just Quarry Hill

In sound technology, 1906 recruitment records from London Phonograph Company showed women confined to auxiliary tasks like cylinder cleaning and label pasting, while men monopolized core roles like voice recording and engineering (Bell, 2017). Coleman even claimed male characterized by greater pellet excursions, higher pellet speed, and consistently larger dorso-palatal strictures than its female counterpart so that male is more competent than female in sound work, which is a pseudoscientific assertion (Coleman 1971). This occupational segregation limited female participation in UK recording industries to under 5% before 1914 (Bell, 2017).