ABSTRACT This analysis explores the shifting definitions of what constituted a diplomat in post-Second World War Britain. Post-war women’s liberation generated unique dilemmas for Foreign Office recruiters: whilst reluctant to employ women on equal terms with men, they nonetheless fell under pressure to demonstrate that Britain’s self-styled international reputation as a vanquisher of Nazi tyranny and oppression applied to women’s employment. Women were admitted to the Diplomatic Service in 1946 on the basis that arguments in favour of women diplomats complemented and even enhanced Foreign Office attempts to model itself as a bastion of equal opportunity, fairness, and, later, ‘meritocracy’. This analysis explores internal Foreign Office debates about the employment of women diplomats after the Second World War, but it also makes a related argument about the value of ‘organisation history’ and what a study of Foreign Office culture can reveal about the society in which is operated.

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“安全第一”：性别与英国外交身份的界限，1945-1970

摘要 本分析探讨了二战后英国外交官的定义不断变化。战后女性解放给外交部招聘人员带来了独特的困境：虽然不愿以与男性平等的条件雇用女性，但她们仍面临压力，以证明英国自封的国际声誉是纳粹暴政和压迫的征服者适用于女性就业. 1946 年，女性被接纳进入外交部门，因为有利于女性外交官的论据补充甚至加强了外交部将自身塑造为机会均等、公平以及后来的“精英统治”堡垒的努力。该分析探讨了外交部内部关于二战后女性外交官就业的辩论，