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FORD Dagenham’s famous women strikers were back on the front line of the fight to end Britain’s gender pay gap yesterday — almost 50 years after their historic victory.
Gwen Davis, Vera Sime, Eileen Pullen and Sheila Douglass marched on Parliament with Mind the Gap campaigners as MPs voted on equal pay.
The women — whose 1968 strike was the inspiration behind the Made in Dagenham film and musical — picked up placards once more to tackle the 23 per cent chasm between men and women’s salaries.
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
What’s behind the stubborn gender gap in Stem disciplines ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT in their column Science and Society