Politics

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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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The Equal Pay Act 1970 and Women-led Industrial Disputes, 1964-86

by Frances Galt During the 1970s, there was an intensification of women-led industrial disputes, particularly in the five years between the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970 and its implementation from 29 December 1975. Through strikes, workplace occupations...
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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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New podcast! “In Conversation with Sarah Boston”

As a follow up to the launch of Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries by Dr Frances C Galt – a discussion event which we were delighted to...
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Intersectionality, race and the Sex Discrimination Act: The construction of equality silos

By Ashlee Christoffersen The Gender Equalities at Work project is exploring how the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA), Equal Pay Act 1970, and their successor the Equality Act 2010 were created, introduced, implemented and changed, in what contexts and...
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