IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Equal pay-you've got to be joking

· Socialist Challenge No. 241, 15 April 1982 · p. 13 of the scan · 285 words

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HERE WE ARE six full years after the much heralded Equal Pay Act came in and women still earn an awful lot less than men.

Pay Unit: •women male hourly earnings.

but 60 per cent of the low paid.

Furthermore, if women didnt go out to work the number of families living below the poverty line in Britain would treble much for the argument TACT women shouldn't and needn't go out to work. Action This report emthe labour movement to and fiaht for women's right to work and the right to equality.

What is really needed is an action camnaian to increase public awareness of what is happening to women in the present economic crisis and to press the government To do something about it.

To make sure Here's how the 5. June events are being built NOTTINGHAM: Week of teeny had a events sections, movement.

meetin May riCWIll Womens Committee. At least in Leeds in April.

the DPP and the Home Office. women's voices are heard the Labour Party has organised women s Festival for Saturday 5 June which will tremendously important.

addition the London Labour Party and the South-East Region of the TUC are supporting march to the Festival calling for woman's right to work.

It will also be the oc casion for a show of solidarity women in the USA, whose president, Ronald Reagan will be visiting London that weekend. Women's right to Music Forums Child care Services Education Battersea Park Rally & trade union speakers with major politic:

Theatre Children's Events Stalls Refreshments

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According to the latest report of the Low earn less than three quarters of • women are 30 per cent of fulltime workers

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