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Re: Your thoughts on this please.
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Originally Posted by MargaretR
The Civil Service used to have a policy whereby a woman had to cease work on marriage.
I don't know when this practice ended, but when I started work in 1959, there was an option still availabe to women - ie the option to take a Marriage Gratuity and resign, or stay at work as a married woman.
This option was eventually withdrawn in 1977
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So how would this "marriage gratuity" affect women in the long term? EG pensions.
If they chose to work after marriage, were there any downsides?
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