Oral history; Interview with Sally Clarke, 2016
Main details
| Reference number | 2016/1726 |
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| Description | Sally Clarke, Upgrades Delivery Manager for Crossrail and chair of the TfL Women’s Staff Network group, speaks about her career at TfL and celebrating 100 years of women in transport. |
| Interviewee | Sally Clarke |
| Dates | 15/02/2016 |
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| Completeness | 60% |
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Physical description
Item content Attribute Value Object title Oral history interview with Sally Clarke, 2016 -
Interview summary
Sally Clarke [S.C] was born in Ilford, Essex on 8 November 1976. She talked about her parent’s professions, childhood and university [00.01.33]. S.C explained that she joined ‘Railtrack PLC’ as a graduate Trainee in 1998, after which she went into Operations. She stated that she has been with Transport for London (TfL) for 14 years, the last 10 years of which she has been working on projects such as Crossrail, Northern and Metropolitan line extensions [00.04.41]. S.C explained that she has been involved with TfL Women’s Staff Network Group from the start of the group 10 years ago. S.C talked about starting the TfL Carers Staff Network Group, which saw the introduction of policies that included more flexible working hours for carers [9.55]. S.C described the aims of the Women’s staff network group [13.52]. S.C talked about how the Women’s staff network group would celebrate International Women’s Day on the 8th March (2016) and explained the aims of the ‘100 years of Women in Transport’ campaign. S.C talked about how the Women’s staff network group broke a Guinness World Record last year. S.C explained that the aim of the ‘100 Years of Women in Transport’ campaign for this year (2016) is to inspire the next generation of women to join the transport industry [23:18]. S.C talked about Women’s staff network group launching the ‘Pregnancy at work’ scheme with a charity, as well as developing new legislation to enable partners to share maternity leave [45.38]. S.C explained that there has been an increase in the number of women working for TfL, she hopes that in the next 20 years TfL would have reached 40% representation [50:43] S.C explained that her wider aspirations are to see women doing all of the jobs in TfL and to see more entry level graduates joining the industry. S.C explained that with more women comes more balance and with more balance comes greater productivity, greater service to the customers and greater potential. She explained that in 20 years’ time it will not be unusual to see women in engineering, to see women at the most senior levels of the organisation, it will become the norm, and when it becomes the norm some of the culture that exist in companies will begin to disappear. S.C explained that normal and balanced are two words that we will be using in 20 years’ time, it will not be equality and diversity, and at this point TfL will have come a long way. -
People involved
Role Person(s) involved Interviewer Georgia Morley, 15/02/2016Interviewee Sally Clarke -
Associated companies, people and places
Places Interview location Albany House, 4th Floor South Wing , 15/02/2016