Article: International Institutions and Domestic Reform: Equal Pay and British Membership in the European Economic Community.
2018 Volume 29, Issue 1, Page(s) 104–128
Abstract: Despite having been overlooked in the standard histories of the UK and the European Community, gender politics and gender policies played a significant role in Britain's applications for membership in the EEC in the 1960s. Joining the European Community ... ...
| Abstract | Despite having been overlooked in the standard histories of the UK and the European Community, gender politics and gender policies played a significant role in Britain's applications for membership in the EEC in the 1960s. Joining the European Community required that Britain comply with Article 119 on equal pay for equal work. A combination of domestic feminist and labour movement activism, the commitment of unions and parties, and the internationalization of formal commitments to women's rights constituted internal and external pressures for the passage of an Equal Pay Act in 1970. The article argues that the formal legislative commitment to gender pay equality, changing public attitudes towards women's employment, and European membership impacted further domestic social policy reform and slowly began to shift government attitudes towards gender equality. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2018-03-01 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2077480-1 |
| ISSN | 1477-4674 ; 0955-2359 |
| ISSN (online) | 1477-4674 |
| ISSN | 0955-2359 |
| DOI | 10.1093/tcbh/hwx045 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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