On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Equal Pay

Poster
1976 (made)
Artist/Maker
The Poster Collective (designer)
Grunwick Strike Committee (designer)
Place of origin
United Kingdom (made)

Photographic image of striking women

Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Feminism
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleEqual Pay (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Screenprint in black and red
Ink
Card
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
  • Height: 780mm
  • Width: 530mm
Marks and inscriptions
EQUAL PAY (printed on picket sign, within image)
Gallery label
(2021)
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.
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
Subjects depicted
Protest
Politics
Propaganda
Equality
Women
Place depicted
United Kingdom
Other number
LS.1300 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.649-2004

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Record createdOctober 12, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O106293/equal-pay-poster-the-poster-collective/
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