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.

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#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

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...

Frances Galt shows that collective action is central to advancing equal pay. See her new article '"Equal Pay or we Walk Away": Litigation and Industrial Action in the Glasgow City Council Equal Pay Dispute' in Industrial Relations Journal - onlinelibrary-wiley-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

The 1975 Sex Discrimination Act received the Royal Assent exactly 50 years ago today on 12 November. Whilst flawed, it was pathbreaking – you could no longer be legally sacked because of your sex or marital status ...
www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/sex...

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅

Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open!

Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social

🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex

Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

40 years ago ... the first support and advocacy group to focus solely on sexual harassment was set up in June 1985
www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/wom...

"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

New article on 'Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation'. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

In June 1972, the first issue of Spare Rib was published — a ground-breaking magazine born from the Women’s Liberation Movement. It ran until 1993.

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July

Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!

🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

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