Equal Pay

"Women in UNISON postcard, 1996" [EP0142], 1996

"Teresa Billington-Greig, 1909" [EP0064], 1909; This article on 'Leaders and speakers in the women's suffrage movement' is from The Queen, the Lady's Newspaper for 27 February, 1909. It features a photograph and article on Teresa…

"The difference? Just money, 1968" [EP0167], 1968; This cover from the ASTMS Journal, issue 4, 1968 relates to a report by Audrey Hunt, an Executive Council member of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs entitled 'A…

"Equal Pay Act - cartoon, 1982" [EP0112], 1982; This cartoon by Phil Evans, showing a cleaner discovering that the Equal Pay Act has been swept under a carpet, is from a 1982 Trade Union Resource Centre publication 'Can job evaluation help w…

"Equal pay - CAWU leaflet, c. 1960" [EP0154], 1960; Leaflet from the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union for women working in the engineering industry. The Union had submitted a claim for the introduction of equal pay over 5 years whi…

"Stop the juggling - BIFU leaflet, 1991" [EP0170], 1991; Banking Insurance and Finance Union leaflet on equal pay for work of equal value and job evaluation schemes.

"Equal pay for equal work - any questions? 1954" [EP0102], 1954; This pamphlet was published by the Equal Pay Campaign Committee in 1954 and contains evidence to counter arguments against equal pay for women. The cover page carries photographs o…

"International Women's Year Rally, London, 1975" [EP0011b], 1975; This photograph shows members of the printing union, the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, walking with an equal pay banner at the TUC International Women's Year Ral…

"Equal pay petition - cartoon 1954" [EP0050a], 1954; In 1954, a massive petition in support of equal pay was organised by the Equal Pay Coordinating Committee and presented to Members of Parliament at a demonstration on March 9. These photograph…

"Equal opportunities - SCPS poster, c 1985" [BW0219], 1985, Trades Union Congress; Poster produced by the Society of Civil and Public Servants

"Unison - winning equal pay, 2001" [EP0200], 2001; Unison leaflet for members on how to make a claim for equal pay and including quotes from successful claimants in equal pay cases.

"The Gender Agenda, 2007" [EP0188], 2007; In Summer 2007, just before it merged into the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights, the Equal Opportunities Commission launched the Gender Agenda - a call to the new Commission, government and s…

"Equal pay leaflet, 1944" [EP0083], 1944; This leaflet calling for equal pay for equal work in the public services was issued by the Equal Pay Campaign Committee in 1944.

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"Equal pay for equal work - USDAW pamphlet, 1988" [EP0169], 1988; Pamphlet from the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.

"'Equal pay for equal work', 1944" [EP0081], 1944; This pamphlet by Tamara Rust, secretary of the Women's Advisory Committee of the Communist Party, argues for 'Equal pay for equal work'. At the time, unions were generally no…

"'Q & A on equal pay', 1947" [EP0077], 1947; In 1946, the Royal Commission on Equal Pay concluded tentatively that women in teaching and certain grades of the civil service might benefit from equal pay. Even these very limited propos…

Small group of women, and one man standing outside the Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen, protesting over equal pay. The Equal Pay Act became law in 1970.

"'Women's work and low pay', 1985" [EP0042], 1985; 'Women's work and low pay' is the report of the conference for women organised by the South East Region TUC [SERTUC] Women's Rights Committee and Centres for the Unem…

"What's your job worth, 1989" [EP0173], 1989; Guidelines issued to National and Local Government Officers Association [Nalgo] branches on claiming equal pay for work of equal value.

"Women in engineering, 1964" [EP0103], 1964; This leaflet, 'Equal pay for equal work: a new deal for women in engineering', was published by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions in 1964 as part of a claim to the engin…