S12, Ep7 How to Fail: Lady Hale
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Everyday Discrimination
In the era before sex discrimination act 19 75, there was lots of every day discrimination against women. One example was that a bar in manchester where we might go and have a drink would turn us away at lunch time. A student who didn't want to go into the law or though she was a good law student could not get a job with an insurance company because they wouldn't pay her what men were paid. And a very inguished scholar who came to be a professor at manchester university and wanted a house had to have a male guaranteer on her mortgage. All these examples became instantly unlawful with the sex discrimination act of 19 75. It did stop each of those three things
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