Record

StorageSiteUCL Institute of Education
LevelFile
Reference Number UWT/D/1/51
Title'Royal Commission on Equal Pay'
Date1943 - 1947
DescriptionCorrespondence between the NUWT, the Office of the Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee, Members of Parliament, the National Conference of Labour Women, Women's Adjustment Board, the Equal Pay Campaign Committee and the Royal Commission on Equal Pay regarding the absence of any pronouncement on equal pay in a recently published Government 'Statement on the Economic Considerations affecting relations between Employers and Workers'.
The correspondence covers:
Detailed arguments from A. Muriel Pierotti against delaying the implementation of equal pay
NUWT Resolutions regarding equal pay
Standard letter sent by NUWT to MPs calling for the implementation of an equal pay policy
NUWT statement on 'Equal Pay and the Teaching Profession'
Invitations sent to MPs to speak at a mass meeting calling for equal pay on 30 January 1947
Replies from MPs stating whether they will speak at the meeting and their attitude towards equal pay
Handbill for the Equal Pay meeting at Central Hall, Westminster on 30 january 1947
Minutes of meetings of the Status of Women Committee - discussing equal pay
Reports of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee
Conference on 'Equal pay and the status of women' organised by the National Committee for Celebration of International Women's Day, 1945
International Women's Day Committee Report on the Royal Commission Report on Equal Pay, 1946
Typed extracts of Hansard questions regarding the Royal Commission
Amendments to the evidence submitted by the NUWT to the Royal Commission
Arrangements for the NUWT to submit evidence to the Royal Commission
Analysis of numbers of men and women teachers who have dependents
Replies from NUWT members describing their home situation and dependents they have

Includes various NUWT publications on equal pay which are duplicates of those elsewhere in the collection

Evidence submitted by various organisations to the Royal Commission on Equal Pay. These organisations include:
The NUWT; the British Federation of Business and Professional Women; the National Federation of Professional Workers; the National Council of Women; the National Association of Women Civil Servants; London and National Society for Women's Service

Press cuttings and journals regarding equal pay and the Royal Commission. These include:
'Equal Pay - Royal Commission's ambiguous report', Teachers World and Schoolmistress, 13/11/1946 (includes photograph of 1946 NUWT President Miss C. M. Young
'The Woman Teacher', issues from: 26/03/1944, includes discussion of the salary sections of the McNair Report; 16/03/1944, includes notes from the General Secretary on the Royal Commission; 05/05/1944, includes front page discussion of equal pay; 07/02/1947 - includes front page report of a mass meeting on 30 January 1947 called to 'Demand Action Now' on equal pay
'Opportunity - the organ of the Federation of Women Civil Servants', special issue by the Federation Equal Pay Committee, 1930
'Equal Pay', Federation of Women Civil Servants, 1929

Publications:
'Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Equal Pay', 1945
'Statement on the Economic Considerations affecting relations between Employers and Workers', Ministry of Labour, 1947
'Economic Survey for 1947', presented by the Prime Minister to Parliament, 1947
'What is she worth? a study of the report on equal pay', Elaine Burton, 1947
'Memorandum on the Report of the Royal Commission on Equal Pay', National Association of Schoolmasters, issued as a supplement to 'The New Schoolmaster', 1946
'Equal Pay - evidence submitted by the Communist Party to the Royal Commission'
'The cheaper sex', Philippa Pick, National Association of Women Civil Servants
'Report by a Court of Enquiry concerning dispute at an engineering undertaking in Scotland', Ministry of Labour, 1943 (this was a dispute over unequal rates of pay for men and women doing the same work)
'Equal Pay in the teaching profession', National Association of Schoolmasters, [1944]
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