Catalogue description Royal Commission on Equal Pay (Asquith Commission): Minutes, Papers and Reports

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Reference: T 189
Title: Royal Commission on Equal Pay (Asquith Commission): Minutes, Papers and Reports
Date: 1944-1946
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Royal Commission on Equal Pay, 1944-1946
Physical description: 19 file(s)
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The Royal Commission on Equal Pay was appointed under Royal Warrant on 17 October 1944. Its terms of reference were:

"To examine the existing relationship between the remuneration of men and women in the public service, in industry and in other fields of employment; to consider the social, economic and financial implications of the claim of equal pay for equal work; and to report".

The report was issued in October 1946 as Cmnd 6937.

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