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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Times article - Women in low-paid jobs now Tories’ top priority

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PimmsnLemonade · 21/11/2018 00:33

Thoughts on this?:

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/women-in-low-paid-jobs-now-tories-top-priority-0q8k8fg6h

Focusing on working class and BME women sounds positive but it's the Tories and Penny Mordaunt so I'm suspicious. References to 'targeting' groups with low employment levels could be interpreted in more than one way.

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UpstartCrow · 21/11/2018 00:46

They are the ones that scrapped all the schemes and training and benefits that were put in place for low paid/unemployed women!
And just how do they propose to identify us? We no longer exist as a definable class thanks to them!

PebbleDashed · 21/11/2018 10:01

Definitely suspicious, in light of the suggestions that part-time working is no longer acceptable, one has to be working all hours one can find or nothing.

They should concentrate on making work actually pay, with falling wages and rising living costs and limited childcare, not kicking the poor harder: and particularly women, who have primary responsibility for childcare (like it or not, which I don't).

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