Workers' Birth Control Group

Workers' Birth Control Group
Formation1924
FounderDora Russell, Frida Laski, Leah L'Estrange Malone, Dorothy Thurtle, Ernest Thurtle
Location
President
Dorothy Jewson
Chairman
Leah L'Estrange Malone
Vice-chairman
Dr. Maurice Newfield
Secretary
Dora Russell
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Workers' Birth Control Group was a British organisation which sought to enable working class women to access birth control information and treatment, safely and free of charge. It was founded in 1924, in the wake of the women's conference of the Labour Party, by a group which included Dora Russell, Frida Laski, and Dorothy Jewson. The group deliberately distanced itself from other existing birth control organisations, which were typically middle class and inspired by ideas of eugenics.

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