Fears were raised that 'the presence of women behind bars might 'tempt young men into licensed premises and encourage them to drink'.
Gender equality and diversity is a vital consideration for Glasgow's pubs, bars and restaurants in this day and age - but there was a time not so long ago that the opposite was true.
Records from April 1902 showed that there were 106 barmaids employed in the city of Glasgow, with the majority employed in the city centre. At the stroke of a quill, the Glasgow Magistrates made them destitute. Future Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald said during a parliamentary debate on banning barmaids: “Their employment increased the consumption of drink, because where women were employed there was a great deal of dalliance in the bar.
But it wasn’t just men who wanted to keep women out of the city’s alehouses. Temperance was important to many Glasgow feminists who saw male binge drinking as major factor in the continuing oppression and abuse of women. Similarly, where alcohol was served alongside food - like in the famous Mackintosh-decorated teahouse ran by Kate Cranston - women were allowed to work. Waitressing was then deemed acceptable, but bartending was not.
Young people hoped that the restrictions on women would be reversed, but over the years the opposite happened – in 1903 magistrates ruled that in Glasgow "where a bar is principally for drinking purposes, male attendants only must be employed there".
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