This article examines the gender politics within British trade unions and their role in advancing gender equality at the workplace in the nineteenth and twentieth century Britain where unions’ feminization process encountered social and ideological impediments. The study explores the ostracism experienced by women within a totally male dominated labour movement with a focus on their demands for inclusion, and their consciousness in setting up their own unions to challenge the patriarchy ideology which describes the structuring of society on the basis of family units where man is the ‘breadwinner’. Despite overtly sexist opinions and behaviours, women have demonstrated before and during world events their economic awareness as an increasing industrial workforce; and their political consciousness as belonging to a class whose interests were unrepresented within mainstream unionism ; and ignored by a hegemonic capitalist system.

Category	Quartile
哲学	2
哲学, 科学史与科学哲学	2
哲学, 宗教	2

Gender Equality within the British Trade Unions: The Incomplete Revolution

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