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Educate the young so that our future workers understand their rights

Image of EIS campaign placard, stating Pay Attention
By Tanya Rhodes This blog was borne from asking my nine-year-old daughter whether she understood why her teacher, along with thousands of others across Scotland, would be going on strike on Thursday November 24th, in the first such industrial...
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Campaigning for equal pay – 50 years on

Professor Louise Jackson, presenting to the STUC Women's Conference on the trajectory of media representation of workplace sexual harassment
By Hazel Conley, Frances Galt, Louise Jackson and Tanya Rhodes The ‘Gender Equalities at Work’ project team was delighted to attend the Scottish Trades Unions Congress (STUC) Women’s Conference in Glenrothes, 31 October to 1 November 2022, to discuss...
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Gender equality and local government employees in the 1990s: Scotland and Wales

By Esther Breitenbach Women’s and equal opportunities committees became a feature of local government from the early 1980s. In Scotland, following the inspiration of the Greater London Council (GLC)  and London boroughs such as Islington, committees began being established...
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The Equal Opportunities Commission: an achievement of its time?

by Sophia Ayada[1] The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), established by the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act (SDA), was one of the most prominent gender equality bodies in Europe. Now replaced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), whose remit...
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IWD2022: Women’s Activism on the Screen: Leeds – United! (1974) and the 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike

by Frances C Galt The 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike is memorialised in the BBC’s Play for Today, Leeds – United! (BBC1, 31 October 1974), which provides a dramatized account of the women-led dispute. Leeds – United! is a...
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IWD2022: Business as Usual? Using film to challenge sexual harassment in the 1980s

By Louise Jackson Released in 1987, the low-budget feature film Business as Usual focuses on the character of Babs Flynn, a Liverpool fashion store manager sacked for complaining about the sexual harassment of younger female colleagues by their male...
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IWD2022: Revisiting the 1968 Ford Dagenham Dispute (again)

by Hazel Conley In the first of our posts marking International Women’s Day 2022, Professor Hazel Conley looks at some of the beliefs and arguments surrounding the dispute by women sewing machinists in the Ford Dagenham plant in 1968,...
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