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Record W4392597215 · doi:10.11647/obp.0392.01

1. An Unthinkable Job for a Woman

2024· book-chapter· en· W4392597215 on OpenAlexaffabout
Leslie Howsam

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFrench Historical and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan UniversityUniversity of WindsorRoyal Society of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSuffrageNewspaperParliamentContext (archaeology)Political scienceLawMedia studiesSociologyHistoryPolitics

Abstract

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This chapter sets the context for Eliza Orme’s ambitions, in England from the 1860s to the 1890s, given that the extraordinary achievement of earning a degree in law was, as it happened, the easy part. She came of age into a burgeoning women’s suffrage movement whose leaders were committed to securing the electoral vote for women as well as access to a wide range of jobs and occupations; they also set their sights on the profession of medicine, but not that of law. The legal professions, encompassing both barristers and solicitors, were so totally closed to women that even the most ambitious suffragist and other feminist politicians did not consider them as institutions open to challenge. This meant that, whatever her contemporaries saw when they looked at Orme, they did not see her as we do today. When Leslie Howsam first encountered Orme in the 1980s, as a postgraduate student of British history in a Canadian university, she could discover very little information about this elusive figure. She had access to libraries and archives at home and in London, but there was no internet searching or digitized newspapers. Almost forty years later, newly available sources have made it possible to speculate that Eliza Orme’s ambition might have transcended even the practice of law, and reached as far as aiming for a seat in Parliament.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.379
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0320.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.056
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.185 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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