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Women teachers ‘denied their pay and conditions’
Women teachers are being systematically denied their contractual pay and working conditions, trade unionists in Birmingham heard at the weekend.
Teachers’ union NASUWT held a women’s consultation conference at the weekend to debate the burden of the coalition’s austerity policies on students and teachers.
Nearly half of delegates said they had experienced discrimination in relation to their pay and progression this year.
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