Ethel Sykes

Ethel Sykes ko Ethel Rosalie Sykes (30 Oktoba 1864 - 8 Maris 1945) malamar Burtaniya ce kuma marubuciya. Ta kula da dubban mata da ke aiki a Bankin Lloyds a lokacin yakin duniya na farko. An tsare ta lokacin da aka kori da yawa daga cikinsu yayin da sojoji suka dawo.

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An haifi Sykes a Stoke . Iyayenta fasto ne na soja Rev. William Sykes (an haife shi a shekara ta 1829)  kuma matarsa Mary, 'yar Kyaftin Anthony Oliver Molesworth, na Royal Artillery, ta fito daga Robert Molesworth, Viscount Molesworth na 1.Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G.: An Historical Account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1900, Based on a Digest of the Society's Records, vol. I, Charles Frederick Pascoe, 1901, p. 929   Mahaifinta fasto ne na girmamawa ga Sarauniya Victoria. 'Yar uwarta Ella Sykes matafiyi ce kuma marubuciya,  kuma ɗan'uwansu tilo Percy Sykes ya zama birgediya, diflomasiyya kuma marubuciya. Mahaifinta, William shine ɗa na biyu ga Richard Sykes, na Edgeley House, Stockport, mai kamfanin Sykes Bleaching Company ; Percy Sykes ɗan'uwan Richard Sykes ne wanda ya kafa garuruwa a Amurka, kuma ɗan'uwan Sir Alan Sykes, Baronet na 1 wanda ya kasance ɗan majalisar dokoki na Knutsford, Cheshire .  name="Foreign Parts 1900, p. 929" 

Ta yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Plymouth sannan ta yi makarantar kwana ta Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army in Bath. Daga nan ta shiga kwalejin mata ta Oxford da aka buɗe kwanan nan , Lady Margaret Hall, a shekarar 1881, ta tafi a shekarar 1884. 'Yar uwarta wacce take da irin wannan ilimin ta tafi a shekarar 1883.

Tana da isassun kuɗi da ba ta buƙatar yin aiki, amma a shekarar 1910 ta sami aikin koyarwa ga Mary Western a Kwalejin Queen Mary da aka sake wa suna kwanan nan a Lahore . Za ta ci gaba da zama a wurin har zuwa 1912. 

A shekarar 1915 ta buga Littafin Karatu daga Tarihin Indiya don Maza da Mata a cikin juzu'i biyu.  A shekarar 1917, Bankin Lloyds ya naɗa ta a matsayin "mai kula da mata". Wannan lokaci ne na canji yayin da ƙaramin adadin ma'aikata mata kafin yaƙi ya ƙaru a lokacin yaƙin yayin da mata 3,300 suka karɓi ayyukan da maza ke ɗauka a cikin rundunar sojoji. A ƙarshen yaƙin, lamarin ya sauya kuma ba za a sake ɗaukar mata a matsayin magatakarda ba. Zuwa shekarar 1920, akwai ma'aikata mata kimanin 1,500 kuma galibi suna yin rajista da bugawa.  Ta yi aikin agaji a asibitin St Mary Abbots kuma ta wakilci Lady Margaret Hall a Jami'ar Mata Club da ke Landan - inda mata za su iya samun "ƙungiyar maza".  name="ethel" 

Sykes ta mutu a wani gidan kula da tsofaffi a Hurstpierpoint kuma ta bar wani babban tarihi ga 'yan'uwa mata a Cocin Oxford Mission da ke cikin abin da yanzu ake kira Bangladesh.

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