Women hit three times harder than men by coalition spending cuts

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Lots of people disputed this when the TUC said it, harder to refute when it's the Treasury itself. Interesting that the Mail are reporting it, given their support for the Tories. (I'm choosing the Mail because the anti-TUC types who refused to believe it last time might finally see that these are facts, not union propaganda.)

Almost everything they are doing makes for utterly depressing reading :(

The fact that the conservatives have so few female MPs gives some indication of their appeal to women and their attitude towards us.

I think the CB cuts have been handled very badly. CB was introduced to combat the fact that women were financially dependent and financially vulnerable, irrespective of family income.That dependence diminishes as more women work. So whilst CB helped women in lower income brackets there has always been an issue historically with women relying on the male breadwinner, who may/may not share the income equally and equitably.

Therefore I think CB should be paid to ALL mothers (only to single parent fathers) never to the father and should be soley based on the mother's income.

The cuts in the public sector are hugely detrimental to women as workers but also as carers of the young & elderly dependant.

The other thing that strikes me about women and work is the fact that Osborn et al want the private sector to take up surplus labour. If anything the pay gap between men and women in the private sector is far greater.

quite.

And let's not forget they are trying to deny legal aid to victims of domestic violence. They know full well the evil they are doing - plenty of people and organisations have pointed out to them. They just don't care. So what if women and children die, seems to be their approach. Also tried to take legal aid away from victims of clinical negligence, including babies with birth injuries that leave them in need of life-long care. Thankfully the Lords have amended the bill, but I don't trust the Tories to leave the amendments alone in the Commons.