most serious difficulties with the legislation result from its in-built flaws. Both the SDA and the EPA lay great stress on changing the ideas which lead to discrimination against women. Neither confronts the conditions which create these ideas.
Any serious attempt to undermine the long history of discrimination would need to sever the ties which hold women to the of the family.
SOraLOn Working Women's Charter recognises that this means adequate provision for child-care, maternity and paternity leave, abortion and contraception, educational opportunities, financial independence ın areas of social security, pensions and taxation.
On all these the legislation has nothing to say.
An example of how this omASLOR makes legislation irrelevant to most women is the job evaluation proceaure forward in the Equal Pay Act as a means of assessing 'work of equal value. In most schemes the factors used for assessment are loaded against women from the start.