Join us for the annual RCN History of Nursing Lecture, delivered by Professor Emeritus Sioban Nelson, on nursing's material culture.

The film 'Business as Usual' challenged dominant narratives about sexual harassment in 1987,

Scottish Women Against Sexual Harassment was set up in August 1986 to support ‘working women in Scotland’; it was dependent on volunteers to run the office it shared with the Women’s Legal Defence Fun...

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

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

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

Since the late 19th century women in Britain have protested against pervasive inequalities with men, much later joined by homosexual men, lesbians and transgender people protesting against inequalitie...

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…

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.

Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

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...

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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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...

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

How can you spot a romance fraudster?

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 ...

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 ...

Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce their one-day conference is taking place on Saturday 13 September 2025 at th...

The first support and advocacy group to focus solely on sexual harassment was set up in 1986.

This article demonstrates how historical and longitudinal inquiry – including a deep dive into archival sources – can add to our understanding of the processes of change and how they happen within ...