(1) This Act is without prejudice to any measures -

(a) maintained or adopted with a view to ensuring full equality in practice between men and women in their employments, and

(b) providing for specific advantages so as -

(i) to make it easier for an under-represented sex to pursue a vocational activity, or

(ii) to prevent or compensate for disadvantages in professional careers.

(2) In the Defence Act, 1954, in section 289(2) (the Army Nursing Service limited to women) for the word "women" there shall be inserted "persons".