principle of equal pay for equal workの例文

例文

1. When the European Economic Community, later the European Union ( EU ), was founded in 1957, the principle of equal pay for equal work was named as a key principle.
2. Some countries now in the EU, including France, Germany, and Poland, had already enshrined the principle of equal pay for equal work in their constitutions before the foundation of the EU ( see table below ).
3. The principle of equal pay for equal work arose at the same time, as part of first-wave feminism, with early efforts for equal pay being associated with nineteenth-century Trade Union activism in industrialised countries : for example, a series of strikes by unionised women in the UK in the 1830s.
4. However, 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.