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Hello, my very first job was in a small branch library just off Scotland Road in Liverpool.

The pay slip described me as an assistant trainee librarian, which meant that I spent most of my time

reshalving fiction books alphabetically, and non-fiction according to the Dewey classification system.

The boredom of these tasks was only relieved at lunchtime when I'd regularly cross the road to the Walker's pub and join a noisy crowd of

dockers for a pint of mixed. Although no women were allowed in the bar, there were always

women in the pub, bunched together in a tiny adjacent room called the snug, where they were sheltered

from male view by pains of frosted glass.

I remembered that apartheid in later years when because of my relationship with one of the

protagonists I was a close observer of the 1980s legal battle by women against Elvino's, a Fleet Street

bar where women until they finally won their case in the Court of Appeal,

were banished to a back room away from the bar.

Both these recollections were aroused by a recent article in Sociology Compass, which considers the presence

of gendered inequality in alcohol consumption in a rather different context, in what is known

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