Law And Society Report 2022

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Related laws.....................................................................................................................................1
Case Laws........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Law treats every person equally irrespective of personal traits or characteristics. However,
society does not see each person equally and gives different treatment to people of different
social groups. Discrimination is a dangerous situation for individuals where people are treated
differently. In day-to-day news, there are several cases where despite having related law, people
have to face discrimination due to their one or more social characteristics. For this report,
discrimination refers to unlawful discrimination where there is no legal or valid ground to
provide unequal treatment. The objective of this report is to develop an understanding of
discrimination among particular social groups, protection under law and case happened in the
past to understand how the law applied in practice. The social group selected for this report is
women who face the issue of unequal pay at their workplace.
Society often treats women in a weak position in comparison to the male members and therefore
even after doing the same work, organizations pay less amount to female employees. The
situation is known as unequal pay. Unequal pay is one of the significant reasons for the gender
pay gap. The history of the selected issue is as old as the late 19th century. IN 1968, women
mechanist at the Ford car plant went on strike due to getting ess payment than male colleagues
for the same work. Unequal pay can be understood as a significant form of sex discrimination
that further make the situation of women weak in a society where due to less earning they have
to depend on male members of the family. The seriousness of the selected area of discrimination
can be understood by the fact that 8 out of 10 firms in the UK found paying male employees
more than female ones.
Related laws
As the issue of unequal, the pay gap initiated in the late 19th century hence to deal with the issue
as well as to escalate the same Equal Pay Act 1970 has been developed. The main objective of
this act was to ensure that female employees are getting equal pay as male employees if they
both are doing the same work. As the title of the act reflects, it has been developed in 1970 but
was not implemented until 1976. Later on, this act has been repealed by another legislation
named the Equality Act 2010. This legislation has a wider scope than the earlier legislation