The factory run out of seats and all the workers are laid off. The production lines stops and entire car manufacturing plant of Ford Dagenham comes to a halt. These cost Ford 8 million pounds of exports and 2200 cars a day. Ford of US pressurises Ford Dagenham to sort this matter out as early as possible. Prime Minister Harold Wilson asks Barbara to resolve the issue which costs government to lose several pounds as tax.
When Ford boss fly in from America, he learns that General Motor don’t have industrial relations problem like Ford because they follow collaborative approach with workers whereas Ford has a casual approach to their workers’ problems.
What follows is all around tension and conflicts amongst government officials, Ford management and unions. Harold Wilson does not want to hurt Ford as they are major employer while Women’s demand for sex equality cannot be left unheard by Barbara who is the Employment secretary. Refusing to bend down on women’s terms, Ford boss threaten Barbara that they will move their manufacturing plants out to somewhere else. She meets women and is won over by them. She directly negotiates with Ford boss and they finally agree to pay the women 92% of men wage rates. She also promises to introduce equal pay legislation into the parliament. The strike ended in three weeks after it began. The ultimate result was the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970, which came into force in 1975 and which prohibit inequality of treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment.
工厂运行的座位和所有的工人被解雇了。该生产线停止和福特达格南整车制造厂停了下来。这些成本福特8000000磅的出口和2200辆汽车一天。福特福特达格南我们施加压力来解决这个问题，尽快。哈罗德首相威尔逊请巴巴拉来解决问题，为税收成本政府失去几磅。
当福特的老板从美国飞来，他得知，通用汽车没有劳资关系问题如福特，因为他们遵循合作的方式与工人而福特的工人问题的一种休闲方式。
以下是在紧张和冲突之间的政府官员，福特的管理和工会。哈罗德威尔逊并不想伤害福特作为他们主要的雇主而女性性别平等的要求无法离开的巴巴拉谁是闻所未闻的就业部长。拒绝弯下腰对女性而言，福特的老板威胁巴巴拉，他们将他们的工厂去别的地方。她遇到的女人，他们赢得了。她直接谈判与福特的老板，他们终于同意支付工资的妇女92%人。她还承诺介绍同工同酬立法议会。罢工结束后三周开始。最终的结果是同工同酬法案1970通过，生效于1975和禁止男女处理不等式在就业和条件。
