Laws Passed During The 1970s To Advance Equality For Women

Question 1

Equal pay act 1970

Answer 1

Women were to receive same rates of pay as men for doing equal work of equal value

Question 2

What act allowed a husbands and wife’s earning to be taxed separately?

Answer 2

Finance act 1971

Question 3

What act denied employers the right to dismiss pregnant employees and required them to offer paid maternity leave?

Answer 3

Employment protection Act 1975

Question 4

What act outlawed discrimination on the ground of sex in regard to employment, education and training, housing, provision of services,baking , insurance and credit?

Answer 4

The sex discrimination act 1975

Question 5

What did the sex discrimination act also set up

Answer 5

The equal opportunities commission to monitor the working of the act

Question 6

What act provided a special maternity allowance fund?

Answer 6

Social security act 1975

Question 7

What required pension schemes to be open equally to women engaged in the same work as men ?

Answer 7

Social security pensions Act 1975

Question 8

1970

Answer 8

Equal pay act passed

Question 9

When was the birth control pill available on the NHS?

Answer 9

1971

Question 10

1975

Answer 10

Equal protection Act passed, sex discrimination Act passed, Equal pay act comes into force

Question 11

1977

Answer 11

International women’s day established by the United Nations

Question 12

1979

Answer 12

TUC (trade unions) publishes charter, equality for women within trade unions

Question 13

What did the abortion Act 1967 mean for women?

Answer 13

Permitted the legal termination of pregnancy where two doctors present

Question 14

In 1975 how many legal abortions were there in England and Wales

Answer 14

106,648

Question 15

By 2007, how many abortions had taken place under the terms of the 1967 act?

Answer 15

Over 5 million abortions

Question 16

Continued inequalities can be seen through trade unions, how?

Answer 16

Trade unions still tended to be dominated by men and suspicions remained that women in the workplace would suppress wages for women

Question 17

In 1979, what did TUC publish

Answer 17

A charter - equality for women within trade unions

Question 18

Nevertheless, despite some inequalities in trade unions, what happened to women’s wages?

Answer 18

Women’s wages did go up from 59% of men’s wages in 1970 to 70% by 1977

Question 19

In 1970 women’s wages were how much of men’s wages

Answer 19

59%

Question 20

In 1977, women’s wages went up to how much of men’s wages ?

Answer 20

70%