My friend Gillian Pascall, who has died aged 79, was a sociology lecturer at Nottingham University. She wrote widely on social policy, including through her books Social Policy: A New Feminist Analysis (1996) and Gender Equality in the Welfare State? (2012).
Jill was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, to Doris (nee Wilkin), a signwriter, and George Gregory, a bank manager. She flourished at Parkstone grammar school in Poole, Dorset, and then at Cheltenham Ladies’ college, before earning a place to study English literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
