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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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Gender equalities at work: Black and Asian women and the misrecognition of intersectional justice claims

By Ashlee Christoffersen This post looks beyond legislation and parliamentary debates about gender equality at work to consider the stories of Black and Asian women’s workplace activism and their wider campaigning relating to workplace gender equality. These are stories...
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Gender Equalities at Work – background to the project

The team behind Gender Equalities at Work are setting out to capture the journey of workplace gender equality legislation in the 50 years spanning the introduction of the 1970 Equal Pay Acts (EPAs), the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act (SDA)...
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