Jobs FROM 1979-81 the average percenlage or unemplovea women almost doubled. 71,000 women have been dropped the register because of the new way of compiling the unemployment figures. Over 860,000 women are officially registered unemployed, but than a million more would like to work, most of whom are married women.
Pay WOMEN'S pay as men's is steadily declining. pay rose from 63.1 per cent of men's then fell back to p9. percent in 193d cent in 1977 Nearly cent of workers' earnings today in Britain are below f80 per week. The government is abolishing fair wages resolutions in government contracts.
The government was compelled by the European Court to update the Equal Pay Act. By using the Order to amend the Act the Tories avoided debate and rushed through a cosmetic amendment which accepted the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, but erecting hurdles every stage discouraged making any use or une legislanon. Part-Time workers BETWEEN September 1980 and 1981 alone 197,000 part-time workers were sackea. I wo out or nve women are Maternity Benefits DIC. unemployment birth.
Women must
a percentage of open for women when they but can Education and training women THE GOVERNMENT greater 1ob segregation SO LIC CIOD. the Open University, TOPS systems further threaten women. al women from Social Security live below the poverty line.
child FIRMS employing fewer than six peo- under where many women work. now exempt from the duty to revulnerable. instate women wno nave Just given Nurseries Procedures for gaining maternity NURSERY leave are now much more complex.
state in writing when year they intend to leave, giving the assumed date of confinement and when they will return to work. All employers do not any longer have to keep the job return, get away with offering a numbers Musters has done nothing to halt the trend towards Abortion oI under the impact of the crisis. In postthe approaches on which help women most are the first this mature student places. day release, - all essential to those wnc have missed out on education or need has retraining. Student loans and voucher WOMEN excluded from the labour market are more and more forced to Women account for two-thirds of pensioners, permanently.
benefit. The notorious cohabitation rule is policed rigorously the administration. Young single mums are particularly education under the Tories meant that the three and four old's contingent In time education between 1979 and 1981 rose by 4 per cent and then fell by 5.4 per cent between 1981 and 1982 By 1980 child-minders accounted for 57 per cent of full day-care places Great Britain. Estimates of the of unregistered child range TONI 100,000 300,000 in England alone.
DESPITE the defeat of legal attacks women's abortion rights under government the attack facilities continues. As the NHS share of abortions has failed to keep pace with demand the share of the 'market' increased the private profit-making end of the market.
Black women UNDER the new immigration rules of 1980 and 1983 women who are British citizens have the right to husband but only if they satisty immigration officials that they have met and that they intend to live together (Weekend World January 1982)
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