Equal Pay
Poster
1976 (made)
1976 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Photographic image of striking women
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Equal Pay (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint in black and red |
| Brief description | Women's liberation poster demanding equal pay for women. Strike at Trico factory. UK, 1976. |
| Physical description | Photographic image of striking women |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | EQUAL PAY (printed on picket sign, within image) |
| Gallery label | Women in the workplace
As more women entered the workplace over the course of the last 100 years, they faced challenges around pay and authority. Rising to positions of power, women needed new types of workwear to reflect and emphasise their status. Edina Ronay designed a suit in the 1980s which drew on menswear but featured a skirt instead of trousers. The poster from the 1976 Trico factory strike in London calls out the gender pay gap – a form of inequality that remains an issue today.
Skirt suit
1986
Designed and made by Edina Ronay
Wool with velvet trims and hand-knitted wool jumper
Given by the designer
Museum no. T.49:1 to 3-1997
Equal pay strike poster
1976
Issued by The Poster Collective, UK
Screen print
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Museum no. E.649-2004
The object sits in the 'Automation and Labour' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.(2021) |
| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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| Other number | LS.1300 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.649-2004 |
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| Record created | October 12, 2004 |
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