Gender: Outside Of School Factors, Why Girls Do Better - Policies Changing Societies Attitudes

Question 1

Equal pay act 1970

Answer 1

• a law that aimed to eliminate pay discrimination between men and women
• required that men and women to receive equal pay for equal work including wages, benefits and working conditions if they were performing like work, work rated as equivalent and work of equal value
• means that women were legally protected from low pay and discrimination in the workplace meaning girls were able to aim for higher careers which motivated them to do better in education to reach such careers

Question 2

Sex discrimination act 1975

Answer 2

• A law that aimed to prevent discrimination based on sex or marital status it applied to areas such as employment and education
• means that women were legally protected from low pay and discrimination in the workplace meaning girls were able to aim for higher careers which motivated them to do better in education to reach such careers