Today marks the 50th anniversary of Labour’s Sex Discrimination Act passing into law.

As the 597th woman to be elected to Parliament, I celebrate this milestone - knowing there is still much more to do to make equality in law, equality in practice💯

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‘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

I sense a lot of the detail about how it used to be and described here has been forgotten over the years. Well worth the re-telling.
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Joyce Butler and the Sex Discrimination Act

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

⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free

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