Barbara Castle: the Act would 'take women workers progressively out of the sweated labour class.’
CBI (motto: always on the right side of history): ‘ready to fight the equal pay plans.’
Margaret Thatcher (radical feminist): 'I welcome it, and join my hon. Friend the Member for Melton (Miss Pike) and others in congratulating the right hon. Lady on having introduced it.'
Enoch Powell (chiaroscuro artist): 'a black day.'