UNEMPLOYED WOMEN BEAR THE BRUNT OF SPENDING CUTS

More than a million women are now officially out of work as public sector spending cuts start to kick in – the highest since Thatcher was in Downing Street back in 1988. The headline figures for the last quarter indicated a rise in the total number of people in work, but with 4 million people now registered as self-employed and with tens of thousands more having to take part-time employment or temporary jobs the true picture is a little less rosy. Particularly for women – over the last three months unemployment among men fell by 40,000 while the number of women out of work rose by 31,000.

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