‘One of the year’s best films’ – Baz Bamigboye, Times Online

This film stars the award winning Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike by 187 sewing machinists which led to the advent of the Equal Pay Act. Working in extremely impoverished conditions for long arduous hours which they must balance with their domestic lives, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally lose their patience when they are classified as ‘unskilled’.

With humour, common sense and courage they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly beligerent local community, and finally the government itself.

‘It may have had a little too much of the grimness removed, but this sweet-natured film about a 1968 strike for equal pay is a properly feelgood film’ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Nominee:  Four BAFTAs including Outstanding British Film and Best Supporting Actress for Miranda Richardson and four British Independent Film Awards.

Introduced by Newcastle University Feminist Society