Gender Equalities At Work

Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

📢 Delighted to announce launch of @ukri.org #WomensGrassrootsActivism #Activism100+Toolkit 🧰 to mark #IWD2026. Free event on Tues 10 March, 5.30pm (via Zoom). Book your spot via link 👇. @womensinstitute.bsky.social @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social 📢

IWD2022: Women’s Activism on the Screen: Leeds – United! (1974) and the 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike - Gender Equalities at Work As part of the Gender Equalities at Work project, the Leeds Clothing Workers Strike will be situated within a timeline of equal pay disputes between 1964 and 1986 (discussed in an earlier post) alongs...

The #OtD 12 Feb 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike is memorialised in the BBC’s Play for Today, Leeds – United! (BBC1, 31 October 1974). Frances Galt discusses it here: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/2022/03/10/i...

IWD2022: Women’s Activism on the Screen: Leeds – United! (1974) and the 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike - Gender Equalities at Work As part of the Gender Equalities at Work project, the Leeds Clothing Workers Strike will be situated within a timeline of equal pay disputes between 1964 and 1986 (discussed in an earlier post) alongs...

The #OtD 12 Feb 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike is memorialised in the BBC’s Play for Today, Leeds – United! (BBC1, 31 October 1974). Frances Galt discusses it here: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/2022/03/10/i...

Annual Lecture: Taking Stock & Looking Forward: The Past, Present & Future Join us for a thought-provoking discussion of equality law, reflecting on the past, understanding the present, and envisioning the future.

Last chance to register! Annual Lecture Wed 25 Feb, 6-7 PM: “Taking Stock & Looking Forward: The Past, Present & Future of Equality Law” by @colmocinneide.bsky.social, Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at UCL, www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-lec... (hybrid).
#equality #law #lecture

Moved to care graphic featuring run details (5 March to 2 September 2026)

Join us for the launch of Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration. Your chance for a first look around the exhibition. Enjoy free refreshments, an expert panel of speakers and activities.

📆 Thursday 5 March 2026
📍 London
✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z

#MovedToCare #HistNursing

Jill Craigie - Wikipedia

Great to hear Jill Craigie will have a blue plaque this year.

Her film ‘To be a Woman’ supported the Equal Pay Campaign petition way back in 1951
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Cr...

#womensHistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers!

Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.

Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.

Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

Deadline: 29 March 2026

#WomensHistory #GenderHist

Born #OTD 1931, Evelyn Owens was a true pioneer: the first female president of an Irish trade union for both sexes, the first woman to chair the Labour Court and, as a member of the presidential commission, the first woman to sign an Irish bill into law. www.dib.ie/biography/ow... #DIBLives

Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves.

Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.

Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Ashlee Christoffersen @drashleec.bsky.social examines ‘The misrecognition of intersectional justice claims: UK women’s workplace activism of the 1970s–1980s’ in a great new article in Gender & Society:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London.

Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.

Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory

The Equal Opportunities Commission: an achievement of its time? - Gender Equalities at Work The equality body was however an institution of its time, embedded in political and economic contexts that necessarily impacted its initial promise to “work towards the elimination of discrimination”....

... and the Equal Opportunities Commission (set up to enforce the new legislation) also came into being, based in Manchester. Sophia Ayada explores its history here:
www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/2022/04/04/t...

#WomensHistory #OnThisDay
#EqualPayDay

The Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force 50 years ago on 29 December 1975. Explore our Timeline to see how they have been mobilised since: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk#event-gender...

#WomensHistory #OnThisDay
#EqualPayDay #WomenAreBeingShortChanged #CloseTheGenderPayGap

What was it like to be sixteen and female when the UK’s Sex Discrimination Act (1975) was passed? The UK’s Sex Discrimination Act (1975) became law just as I approached my 16th birthday and as I reach sixty six and draw my state pension it will be fifty years since it first hit the statute book...

Hilary Cooper’s personal reflection on the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act is a great read in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Pretty birds and silly moos’: the women behind the Sex Discrimination Act In the 50 years since equal rights for women were enshrined in UK law, the campaigners have been reduced to caricatures, or forgotten. But their struggle is worth remembering

Hurrah for this and that generation of feminists.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Romance fraud, the Sex Discrimination Act, Slady tribute band at Christmas How can you spot a romance fraudster?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

17 minutes if you want to hear about the fiftieth anniversary of the sex discrimination act (there are lots of interesting items today including excellent women in tribute bands)

Joyce Butler and the Sex Discrimination Act

After a long battle, Britain’s Sex Discrimination Act came into force in 1975. What did it do for women?

🔓 Lyndsey Jenkins’ new History Matters is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Today is #EqualPayDay - the day when, due to the gender pay gap in average wages, women effectively stop earning compared to men.

However, our analysis shows that for many women of colour, this date falls considerably earlier in the year.

📣 Today is Equal Pay Day.

Women are still being shortchanged.

👉 Learn more bit.ly/485Ldf5

#EqualPayDay #WomenAreBeingShortChanged #CloseTheGenderPayGap

Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...

Equal Pay has been the law for 50 years so why are we not there yet? Here's the 'long view' on how women's activism has made a difference and what still needs fixing:
historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

#EqualPayDay #WomenAreBeingShortChanged #CloseTheGenderPayGap

Mobilising Women’s Workplace Rights: 50 Years of Sex Equality Legislation - History & Policy Women and men gained formal workplace equality on 29 December 1975 when the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force. Incremental change has been achieved slowly across the subsequent 50 ...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Frances Galt shows that collective action is central to advancing equal pay. See her new article '"Equal Pay or we Walk Away": Litigation and Industrial Action in the Glasgow City Council Equal Pay Dispute' in Industrial Relations Journal - onlinelibrary-wiley-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

The 1975 Sex Discrimination Act received the Royal Assent exactly 50 years ago today on 12 November. Whilst flawed, it was pathbreaking – you could no longer be legally sacked because of your sex or marital status ...
www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/sex...

Front cover of Leah Leneman's 'The Scottish Suffragettes' featuring an image of an Ewardian woman in front of a 'Womens Freedom League' banner, and a second image of a busy suffrage march with banners that read 'Votes for Women'.

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅

Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open!

Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social

🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex

Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

Women Against Sexual Harassment (WASH) set up - Gender Equalities at Work The first support and advocacy group to focus solely on sexual harassment was set up in 1986.

40 years ago ... the first support and advocacy group to focus solely on sexual harassment was set up in June 1985
www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/wom...

drawing of three women on peach background title of exhibition Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade For Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now 10 Feb to 22 Aug.

"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation This article demonstrates how historical and longitudinal inquiry – including a deep dive into archival sources – can add to our understanding of the processes of change and how they happen within ...

New article on 'Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation'. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged