Friday 22 October 2010
"women make up 65 per cent of the six million public sector workers....In local government.....75 per cent of the workforce is female"
This article says women will probably bear 70% of the cuts, which sounds pretty fair to me. Indeed, to be considered really fair, even more women should go, to restore the gender balance to something more representative of our society.
There should also be an investigation into whether institutional sexism created this imbalance in the first place, along with an affirmative action programme to correct it.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 05:41 
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