2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the UK’s Sex Discrimination Act, as well as the coming into force of the Equal Pay Act 1970. Fifty years later, how much progress has been made?
Well, quite a bit. But less than we might have hoped given that the event is listed as ‘gender equality at work’ rather than ‘sex equality at work’, and last time I looked the fawcett society wasn’t using gender as a harmless euphemism for sex.