Article from The Journal, Monday 26 January 2009
In an article by Kevin Rowan, Regional Secretary of the northern TUC called on the government, employers and unions to tackle female unemployment. To quote from the article:
“…This recession will also hit women harder than any previous downturn, according to a new TUC briefing. Jobs are being lost across the economy rather than concentrated in male dominated sectors such as manufacturing. There are more women working today than at the time of previous recessions, and there are more households than ever which depend solely or primarily on a woman’s wage.
A quarter of households with children are headed by lone parents, 90% of whom are women and women earn more than men in a fifth of couples.In recent months the rate at which women have been losing their jobs has increased at the same speed as the male unemployment rate.
During the downturn, women’s redundancy rate has increased more quickly than the male rate. From January to September 2008, the female redundancy rate increased by 2.3 percentage points, almost double the rate of male increase (1.2 points).”
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