... This took a toll of many lives including that of Jimi Hendrix. However other young people were encouraged by the Beatles and turned to the mysteries of eastern religion during the sixties. During the 1960s men and women's wages were rising quickly. There was little unemployment and many women had more money than ever before. Lots of women went out to work but still most chose not to do so. The 1960s were a boom time for some parts of British industry and the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told young people "you've never had it so good". But women did not have equal pay even though the trade unions had accepted it in principle in 1885, it proved much harder to achieve. Eventually men workers supported equal pay after decades of opposition for fear of women undermining their wages. Women teachers were given equal pay in 1953 and the civil service women ...

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