45 years after the Equal Pay Act, there's still a long way to go

Loopholes have meant that the original legislation hasn't lived up to its promise to improve women's pay. Now it's due for a major overhaul I was 10 when the Equal Pay Act was passed. It was pretty inspiring stuff. So much so that when, as a member of the girls' choir at St Mary's church in Guildford, I heard that the boys in another local church were getting at least twice as much as us, my friends Bryony, Lesley and I wrote to the rector and complained. He didn't take it well. In his next scho...