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With a distinguished air of insularity, Parliament proposes low‐key legislation on equal opportunity for men and women in employment. The traumatic experience of American businessmen who have been dragged by the law along this road, has been overlooked. Most businessmen in both countries would almost certainly deny that they discriminate unfairly and would offer all the traditional myths in support of their arguments. But the Civil Rights Act 1964 and the Equal Opportunity Act 1972 which now govern the subject in the United States have changed employment practices rapidly by attacking through the medium of corporation profits. We have chosen, so far, to overlook the harrowing transatlantic experience and continue as if it had not happened. The proposals current here at the time of writing are for a largely voluntary system broadly similar to that which failed in the States. American experience has proved that voluntarism is inadequate and that compulsion aimed at profits is necessary.