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Equal Pay Act

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1970Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1970

Barbara Anne Castle Blackburn29 May 1970

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Secures equal pay legislation influenced partly by European treaty obligations on equal pay.

Harold Wilson1970

London · Government / Labour Party Government

Equal Pay Act 1970 creates legal rights to equal pay between men and women

Names involved

Barbara Anne Castle BlackburnHarold Wilson

Provenance

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