10 Facts About Mavis Tate

Mavis Tate was a passionate advocate of equal pay for men and women:.

Mavis Tate supported the Marriage Bill in that year, because it attempted to remove abuses of divorce law.

Mavis Tate spoke of the effects of illegitimacy upon children whose parents were unable to marry because 'they are legally tied to partners who are in prison or in an asylum'.

Mavis Tate challenged the employment of 14 year olds in factories, expressing concern for the deterioration of health in young people once they had left school, especially many firms took little regard of the regulations for limiting long hours and overtime; she argued again for equal pay for men and women.

Mavis Tate argued for improvements in pensions for women: 'A woman who has had all her life to earn her own living has usually had to do so at a lower salary than a man in the same position would have earned.

Mavis Tate has therefore not been able to save as much money as he probably could have saved.

Mavis Tate read and quoted the work of the overtly antisemitic writer Douglas Reed, who she used to support her advocacy for the mass internment of refugees in 1940.

Mavis Tate chaired the Women's Power Committee of 1941 and the Equal Pay Campaign Committee of 1942 and was vocal on the subject of equal pay for women as part of the war effort.

Mavis Tate faced intense pain from kidney trouble with great courage.

Mavis Tate's illness dated from the time she visited the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.