Equal pay Act 1970
 

bit of a random question but can somebody give me some information regarding this. more spefically the exact reasons for the act being introduced? i have searched google but cannot seem to find the answer anywhere :(

cheers GD, much appreciated :P

Re: Equal pay Act 1970
 

Hansard is probably your best bet if you want the exact reasons, but it was because the Act's proponents believed that women should be paid the same amount as men for doing the same job....

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Interesting; you dont believe that they should?

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That wasn't what I meant at all. I'm just suprised that Mek felt the need to ask the question here when the answer was bloody obvious.

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i was wondering more if there was a specific reason why there was this change in opinion that women should be payed equaly. after all it had been this way for such a long time

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i'm pretty sure they had been campaigning for it for quite a long time, more so following the war when they'd been doing a lot of the jobs whilst the men were abroad fighting.

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It started when we let them get an education. It was all downhill from there.

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I feel the same about this:

1967: Sexual Offences Bill passed, legalising gay sex in private for consenting adults

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Whilst I shall congratulate you on asking a question, I would also ask why this particular question?

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its for an essay I am doing for college, about the changing role of women, in employment and education, over the last 50 years. im just in the early stages of it but im struggling to find why such an act was brought in in the first place....

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then ask yourself this:

What do you think would make a democratically elected parliament all agree to pass a law to outlaw something, if that something was accepted by the people who elected them as perfectly ok?

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Because employers will use the law to cut costs in wages, did so and still do.
eg: When the minimum wage went up last year my employer (Thresher Group, so if your concidering them for an employer .. dont ) set in the contracts of new staff that they get paid single rate on sundays and bank holidays to cut costs.

Likewise before the equal pay act came in employers would hire women to a do a job over men because they were just as good but did not need to pay them as much.

So basically Mek, the equal pay act protected both women and men.

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I see. Please define 'college' in a way Brits would understand.

I assume you mean you are doing your undergradeuate degree at university?

There's probably at least one book on this topic. Read one.

What is your course btw?