sentences:  As Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission (1999–2005) she is credited with transforming a law enforcement body into a catalyst for change on equal pay, pregnancy discrimination and flexible working.Mellor was born in 1957 and studied Experimental Psychology at Brasenose College, Oxford where she is now an honorary fellow.Between 1979 and 1981, she was Eleanor Emerson Fellow in Industrial Relations Education at Cornell University.