Chuffed to see my article on feminist responses to the unemployment crisis of the 1980s out in JBS:

“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65

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Explore 50 years of campaigning, organising and litigating around workplace gender equalities: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk#event-gender...

#OTD Exactly 50 years ago the 1976 Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order was formerly made (2 July), following concerted lobbying by the Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/ado... www.acenturyofwomen.com/1970s/

1976 Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order and creation of the EOCNI - Gender Equalities at Work

An Order in Council (approved by the UK Parliament) prohibited sex discrimination in Northern Ireland in 1976, and it also created the Equal Oportunities Commission for Northern Ireland

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Workplace sexual harassment was recognised as unlawful in Britain 40 years ago through Jean Porcelli's legal struggle: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/str... Why has the problem remained so intractable? Read our article on its campaigning history: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us at LSE Library on 25 June for our hybrid AGM talk by @teadevotee.bsky.social and @graceheaton.bsky.social on the faith, feminism and politics of Una Kroll. More details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-magnific...

‘A Magnificent Failure’? Una Kroll: Faith, Feminism, and Politics

Join us for a discussion of Una Kroll’s campaigning through faith, feminism, and politics.

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Join us for this event! Advancing equity and intersectionality in nonprofits and policy, Hosted by York University’s Centre for Feminist Research 📅 June 8, 2026 🕙 10:00–11:30 EST 🌍 Online | Open to all Register here: lnkd.in/gbjEht-r #Equity #Intersectionality #Nonprofits

📢 Call for Papers: Women’s History Scotland Conference We’re excited to invite proposals for our conference, taking place online on Friday, 18 September 2026. 🗓 Submission deadline: 1 July 2026 Please share this post widely! Find full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c...

We start the working week with a new policy paper by one of H&P’s founders, Professor Pat Thane, on gender inequality in Britain and how to overcome it. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

WHN Annual Conference 2026 CfP womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Final CFP deadline is now 30 April.

WHN Annual Conference 2026 CfP

The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Li…

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Mato Bošnjak explores the intersections between gender, labour and migration in post-war Yugoslavia in his post for the Social History Blog: socialhistoryblog.com/gender-equal...

Workplace legal protections have been bravely fought for and cannot be taken for granted. The Fawcett Society’s Penny East interviews Belinda Price who won the first case of indirect sex discrimination in the UK in 1977: vimeo.com/1172869175?s... and www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/why-the...

Belinda Price - Challenging Indirect Sex Discrimination

This is "Belinda Price - Challenging Indirect Sex Discrimination" by Fawcett Society on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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📢 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 📢

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.

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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...

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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

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.

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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

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 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Cr... #womensHistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Jill Craigie - Wikipedia

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📣 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

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

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....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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🚨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 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

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....

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...

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Hurrah for this and that generation of feminists.

‘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

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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)

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Romance fraud, the Sex Discrimination Act, Slady tribute band at Christmas

How can you spot a romance fraudster?

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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...

Joyce Butler and the Sex Discrimination Act

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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

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 ...

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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...

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 ...

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