Tag: equal pay

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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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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: 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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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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