Editing Equal pay for equal work (section)

==Early history ==
As wage labor became increasingly formalized during the [[Industrial Revolution]], women were often paid less than their male counterparts for the same labor, whether for the explicit reason that they were women or under another pretext. The principle of equal pay for equal work arose at the same part of [[first-wave feminism]], with early efforts for equal pay being associated with nineteenth-century [[Trade Union]] activism in industrialized countries: for example, a series of strikes by unionized women in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] in the 1830s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unionhistory.info/equalpay/roaddisplay.php?irn=820|title=Winning Equal Pay: The value of women's work|last=University|first=London Metropolitan|website=www.unionhistory.info|language=en|access-date=2019-08-28}}</ref> Pressure from Trade Unions has had varied effects, with trade unions sometimes promoting conservatism. [[Carrie Ashton Johnson]] was an American suffragist who related equal pay and wages of [[Women in the workforce#19th century|women in the industrial workforce]] to the issue of [[women's suffrage]]. In 1895, she was quoted by the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' as having said, "When women are given the ballot, there will be equal pay for equal work."<ref>{{Cite web|title=6 May 1895, 3 - Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/349502802/?terms=Carrie+Ashton+Johnson|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref> 

Before woman's suffrage, women who sought equal pay for equal work used a variety of strategies to convince city and state governments that they deserved the same pay as their male counterparts. For example, the women in the New York City Interborough Association of Women Teachers won their campaign in 1911 by streamlining their goals and emphasizing women's important role in the schoolroom.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Rachel |title="Women Teachers' Lobby": Justice, Gender, and Politics in the Equal Pay Fight of the New York City Interborough Association of Women Teachers, 1906-1911 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |date=February 2024 |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=24-42 |doi=10.1017/heq.2023.49}}</ref> 
 
Following the Second World War, trade unions and the legislatures of industrialized countries gradually embraced the principle of equal pay for equal work; one example of this process is the UK's introduction of the [[Equal Pay Act 1970]] in response both to the [[Treaty of Rome]] and the [[Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968]]. In recent years European trade unions have generally exerted pressure on states and employers to progress in this direction.<ref name="eurofound.europa.eu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2002/gender-pay-equity-in-europe|title=Gender pay equity in Europe|website=Eurofound|language=en|access-date=2019-08-28|archive-date=2014-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222060116/http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2002/01/study/tn0201101s.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>