.ltIt's all yours girls, from today

The Sun,
29 December 1975
 
WOMEN get a whole new equality deal today after centuries of discrimination.
 
The Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act became law at midnight.
 
But women must stand up for their rights if they are to win in the equality stakes, Dr Shirley Summerskill warned last night.
 
Dr Summerskill, the junior Home Office Minister who played a leading part in getting the Sex Discrimination Bill through Parliament, added: "The important thing is for women to know what their rights are and how to seek redress under the Acts. Unless women do so, the laws on their own are useless."
 
Terrific 

Top nude model Vivien Neves, aged 27, described the new laws as "terrific-just great!"
 
She said: "Women are the equal of men, and we can do anything they can do - well almost anything."
 
Miss World contest organiser Julia Morley was not so enthusiastic.
 
She said: "My feeling is that it is something women are going to regret."


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