§ Mr. Bishopasked the Attorney-General if he will consider amending the Sex Discrimination (Removal) Act 1919, so as to make it an offence to discriminate against women and to ensure equal rights between the sexes in education, the professions, legally and in other ways.
§ The Attorney-GeneralAs my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said yesterday in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward), the Government are considering ways of securing fair treatment for women under the law in cases where discrimination still exists. I do not believe that the creation of a new criminal offence would be the best way of achieving equality.—[Vol. 811, c.256.]