Give us a bit of context there, if you would.

Well, there was certainly a lot of resistance to women becoming lawyers, um, and indeed, they'd been trying for a good 70 years in various different ways to be admitted to the exams to an- to allow them to become lawyers, and failed.

And it was only when a, a act of Parliament was passed in 1919 that solicitors and, and the Bar were forced to accept women.

And although that was a huge victory and seemed like this was the goal, of course, as so often with feminist achievements, it was actually the start [laughs] of the battle, not, not the end.

There was still a lot of resistance to women practicing, and that informal resistance is often harder to deal with than the formal barriers.

A lot of firms, uh, refused to have facilities for women, that their, said their clients didn't want to work with women and so on.

And so we see by the middle of the 20th century is only 3% of solicitors were women.

And how would you define that hostility? How does that exhibit itself?