Laws Passed During The 1970s To Advance Equality For Women Flashcards
Equal pay act 1970
Women were to receive same rates of pay as men for doing equal work of equal value
What act allowed a husbands and wife’s earning to be taxed separately?
Finance act 1971
What act denied employers the right to dismiss pregnant employees and required them to offer paid maternity leave?
Employment protection Act 1975
What act outlawed discrimination on the ground of sex in regard to employment, education and training, housing, provision of services,baking , insurance and credit?
The sex discrimination act 1975
What did the sex discrimination act also set up
The equal opportunities commission to monitor the working of the act
What act provided a special maternity allowance fund?
Social security act 1975
What required pension schemes to be open equally to women engaged in the same work as men ?
Social security pensions Act 1975
1970
Equal pay act passed
When was the birth control pill available on the NHS?
1971
1975
Equal protection Act passed, sex discrimination Act passed, Equal pay act comes into force
1977
International women’s day established by the United Nations
1979
TUC (trade unions) publishes charter, equality for women within trade unions
What did the abortion Act 1967 mean for women?
Permitted the legal termination of pregnancy where two doctors present
In 1975 how many legal abortions were there in England and Wales
106,648
By 2007, how many abortions had taken place under the terms of the 1967 act?
Over 5 million abortions
Continued inequalities can be seen through trade unions, how?
Trade unions still tended to be dominated by men and suspicions remained that women in the workplace would suppress wages for women
In 1979, what did TUC publish
A charter - equality for women within trade unions
Nevertheless, despite some inequalities in trade unions, what happened to women’s wages?
Women’s wages did go up from 59% of men’s wages in 1970 to 70% by 1977
In 1970 women’s wages were how much of men’s wages
59%
In 1977, women’s wages went up to how much of men’s wages ?
70%
