... education play in that process will be determined. Relevant equal opportunity legislation, incentives and policy implementation will be examined and evaluated along with the attempts to promote equality by various agencies with their suggestions improvement. Class, race and qualifications divide women in employment but they all have discrimination in common. Historically Employers have always used women as cheap labour- as this 1875 Government report on the Civil Service shows: 'Women are well qualified for clerical work of a less important character, and are satisfied with a lower rate of pay than is expected by men similarly employed. We therefore see no reason why the employment of female clerks should not be extended.' (TUC 1990). Due to World War II the structure of the British workplace changed radically. Across the nation more and more women were taking up paid employment, many had starting working in place of men who had gone off to fight ...

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