This inspiring timeline shows the top milestones in the female work environment - from Katherine Fenkyll taking over her husband’s drapery business in 1479, to women being allowed to join the London Stock Exchange in 1973.
Today, almost a third of small businesses in the UK are female owned - but the timeline below shows just how far we have all come.
The insights, compiled to celebrate International Women’s Day, show how much has changed since the 15th century, when widowed Katherine Fenkyll took over her husband’s drapery business in Tudor London.
