The right to equal pay

TARGET GROUP: Upper secondary school and STX/HF

SUBJECTS: History, Social Studies & Danish

TEACHING MATERIAL

    • A 20-minute student-facing podcast about the right to equal pay.
    • A didactized source package that students can go straight to. The source package includes:
      • An equal pay obituary from 1971
      • A short clip from the documentary “We Demand Equal Pay” from 1972
      • Curated images of the historic fight for equal pay
      • Curated equal pay songs
      • Statistics and attitudes on the national and international pay gap in 2023
      • Introduction to the 1969 Civil Service Reform and the valuation of work
    • Teacher’s guide
    • Extras for further immersion

All sources and assignments can be accessed aurally.

The right to equal pay

What is equal pay? Who has the right to equal pay? What does the historical and contemporary struggle for equal pay look like? And why is there still a wage gap in Denmark, even though the “Equal Pay Act” was passed in 1976? Students will learn all this and much more in this digitized source package. Through active listening to the student-oriented podcast, students will be able to analyze selected didactic and digitized sources that focus on the historical and contemporary struggle for the right to equal pay and the structures that maintain a pay gap. Finally, students should consider why unequal pay is perceived as “fake news” and assess whether they can value work and, if they can, what value the different job functions create. The podcast should be seen as a starting point for students to be able to analyze and work with the sources.

How to work with the source package

The material is based on socio-cultural didactics, where students reach new insights through collaboration and joint dialogues. The material contains work for a 90-minute double lesson, but at the bottom of the material we have gathered additional perspectives and areas of immersion if you want to continue working with March 8, feminism or gender equality. In the teacher’s guide you’ll find our suggestions on how to facilitate your lessons based on the Flipped Learning method.

Teacher guides + Link to student pages

Teacher's guide - Lower secondary school

In this teacher's guide, you can find translated learning objectives from the Common Academic Objectives, an introduction to March 8, suggestions for lesson structure and possible perspectives and areas for deepening the work.

Teacher's guide - STX/HF

In this teacher's guide, you can find translated academic goals and core material for STX and HF, introduction March 8, suggestions for lesson structure and possible perspectives and areas of specialization for the work.

Student page - Secondary school

Find the teaching material for upper secondary school here.

Student page - STX/HF

Find the teaching material for STX/HF here.

Podcast about the Right to Equal Pay

You can learn more about the right to equal pay by listening to the student podcast below. In the podcast you will meet:

  • Lasse Folke Henriksen, Associate Professor at CBS, Department of Organization and PhD in Sociology.
  • Anja C. Jensen, President of HK and co-organizer of “Women’s Last Working Day”.
  • Nicoline Sjøberg, operating room nurse at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.
  • Sarah Sander Laugesen, producer and curator at Museum Vestsjælland.
  • Amalie Stærke, teaching and project assistant at the Workers’ Museum.

LISTEN HERE “

Sources for further immersion

If you want to further explore some of the perspectives that the sources in the Right to Equal Pay podcast touched on, you can dive into a longer excerpt from the interview for the podcast than the format allowed for.

The source excerpts are also ideal for projects about: Red Stockings, gender equality, feminism, the modern labor market, women’s struggle, feminist economics, care work or similar.

Lasse Folke Henriksen, Associate Professor at CBS, Department of Organization and PhD in Sociology

LISTEN HERE “

Anja C. Jensen, Federal President of HK, active in “Women’s Last Working Day”

LISTEN HERE “

Nicoline Sjøberg, surgical nurse at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen

LISTEN HERE “

Lasse Folke Henriksen on how we can achieve equal pay

LISTEN HERE “

The educational project is supported by: Kvinderådet, Kvindernes Bygnings Fond and BUPL

Graphics are produced by: Katrine Bælum

Podcast is produced by: Sarah Sander Laugesen