It would appear that we\’ve had that for rather a long time.
Being 4ft 11in paid off for Edith Kent. Her diminutive stature meant that she could crawl inside torpedo tubes — and helped her to become the first woman in Britain to earn the same wage as her male colleagues while working as a welder during the Second World War.
This week Mrs Kent celebrated her 100th birthday with a tea dance at a hotel with 50 family and friends, including her sister Minna, 105.
Mrs Kent began working at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth in 1941 but was so good that she received wage parity in 1943 — which was unheard of at the time.
Given that such equal pay for equal work is now standard right across the economy, what is it that everyone is complaining about?
I don’t think the feminists will appreciate you congratulating a woman for crawling around on her knees all the time in the name of equality!
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Particularly the ones giving poor Peter Stringfellow such a hard time the other day… 🙂
I’m going to rain on your parade a little here Tim:
“but was so good that”
This suggests that her work had to be exceptional to achieve parity with any ordinary clock-watching male slacker. That’s not strictly equality.
“This suggests that…”
It does not. It may as well mean “unexpectedly good at welding for a woman”. There is not a single piece of data about her absolute efficiency.
Have she and her sister been drinking heavy water all their long lives?