WUNRN
UK - FAWCETT SOCIETY CAMPAIGN TO
PROTECT & PROGRESS WOMEN'S RIGHTS DURING AUSTERE TIMES
Direct Link to A Life Raft for Women's Equality: http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/documents/A%20Life%20Raft%20for%20Women's%20Equality%20FINAL.pdf
Women in
- Women
experience a full-time pay gap of 14.9% (calculated using Office for
National Statistics figures, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
2011)
- 64% of
low paid workers are women (Source: IPPR, Working Out of Poverty: A study
of the low paid and the working poor, 2008)
- Women’s
average personal pensions are only 62% of the average for men (Source:
National Equality Panel, An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the
Evidence is clear
that the current approach the coalition government is taking to reduce the deficit
is increasing women’s economic inequality and is resulting in a row-back on
hard won gains for women’s equality.
In particular, the Fawcett Society is concerned that women are being hit in
three key ways a result of the deficit-reduction measures. We are calling this
the ‘triple jeopardy’:
1. Women will be
hit hardest by job cuts in the public sector
2.
Women will be
hit hardest as the services and benefits they use more are cut
3.
Women will be
left ‘filling the gaps’ as state services are withdrawn
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