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United Kingdom: Women can secure a separation on the grounds of cruelty, claim custody of their children and demand spousal and child support. Abused wives granted separation orders. [118] United Kingdom: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; United States, Virginia: Married women granted separate economy. [13] 1879. Brazil: Universities open to women. [119]
United Kingdom: The Equal Pay Act 1970 was an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament, which prohibited any less favorable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. United States, Illinois: The equal protection of the laws shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex by the State or its units of local ...
In the 1960s-1970s, Women's Studies and Gender Studies courses were formalised in adult, further, and higher education at colleges and universities in the UK. [58] Juliet Mitchell created the first course named ‘Women's Studies’ at the Anti-University in 1968, with the first MA launching at Kent in 1980.
Historiography of the United Kingdom; List of female members of the House of Lords; Social history of England; Social history of the United Kingdom (1945–present) Suffrage in the United Kingdom; The Women's Peace Crusade; Timeline of Female MPs in the House of Commons; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Women in the House of ...
The Equality Act 2006 (c 3) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, a precursor to the Equality Act 2010, which combines all of the equality enactments within Great Britain and provides comparable protections across all equality strands. Those explicitly mentioned by the Equality Act 2006 include gender; disability; age; proposed ...
LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. [1] It was founded in 1994 by Missouri high-school history teacher Rodney Wilson. [ 2 ]
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is a non-departmental public body which has responsibility for the promotion and enforcement of equality and non-discrimination laws in England, Scotland and Wales, while the Government Equalities Office is a government department charged with promoting and improving gender equality within the UK ...
Rainbow Jews, an oral history project showcasing the lives of Jewish bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender people in the United Kingdom from the 1950s until the present, was launched. [161] It is the United Kingdom's first archive of Jewish bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender history. [162]