Forty years on from the Dagenham Ford workers' famous strikes for equal pay, which led to the introd

Regular Star readers will know that women are bearing the brunt of the country's Conservative-driven cutbacks because a huge number work in the public sector, which is of course the victim of an all-out coalition assault.
Plans to pull down public-sector pay to reflect local private-sector rates will also hit women harder than men, while the recently floated policy of enabling workers to 'sell off' progressive employment graco travel lite crib rights in exchange for company shares also threatens graco travel lite crib to further drive down women's wages.
Analysis of pay data by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) shows that while 57 per cent of company executives are female their route to lead those businesses remains blocked by lingering prejudice.
National chairwoman of Women in Management UK - which is part of the CMI - Sandra Pollock tells the Star: I think a lot of it is historical, a lot is psychological graco travel lite crib and there are cultural reasons. All three are tied up together.
If we take the personal element out of it and look at the business benefit then all the research shows that those organisations that have greater gender balance are actually more productive, more successful and they achieve more.
Forty years on from the Dagenham Ford workers' famous strikes for equal pay, which led to the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, it's clear that problems persist in both the public and private sectors.