This video is about (lack of) equality in Britain.
By Louise Nousratpour in Britain:
Women are hardest hit by ‘savage’ cuts
Wednesday 17 August 2011
by Louise Nousratpour
The latest rise in unemployment figures is yet more evidence that the “savage” cuts are strangling the economy and stifling recovery, union leaders warned today.
Total unemployment rose for the first time in six months, pushing Britain’s total jobless rate up 38,000 – to 2.49 million or 7.9 per cent, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Women were once again the hardest hit as female unemployment increased by 21,000 to 1.05m – the highest since May 1988.
And youth unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds moved closer to the one million mark at 949,000. …
Women’s group Fawcett Society acting chief executive Anna Bird warned that as well as record unemployment “women were facing widening inequality as cuts to public services and benefits begin to bite.”
She said that the reason why women were suffering disproportionately from the cuts was largely down to their exclusion from positions of power and influence.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Men dominating top tables of power
Wednesday 17 August 2011
The number of women in the Cabinet has fallen to its lowest level in a decade under the Tory-led government, the Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed today.
Women were similarly absent from the top tables of media business, the judiciary, the arts and even the female-dominated education sector.
The commission said that women were continuing to be passed over for top jobs and it would take another 60 years or 12 general elections to achieve an equal number of women MPs.
The Sex & Power 2011 report is an index of women in positions of power and influence across Britain’s public and private sectors.
Its release yesterday coincided with the latest unemployment figures, showing that more than one million women were now without a job – highest level for more than 20 years.
Fawcett Society acting chief executive Anna Bird said that the commission’s report should act as a “wake-up call.
The government and others can no longer turn a blind eye to this injustice.”
She also demanded that Mr Cameron honours his pledge to ensure that one-third of his Cabinet ministers are women.
“Decisions that affect us all, be it how to balance the nation’s budget or our preferred system of welfare, are being made without women round the table.”
Female representation in the boardroom has shown a heartening increase; but more and more of their sisters are ending up on the dole queue: here.
UK firms fail to meet gender diversity in the boardroom: here.
USA: Job Discrimination Hitting Women Hard: here.
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