UNEMPLOYMENT, said the TUC earlier this year, is rising faster for women and girls than for men, and government accelerating this trend.
The TUC cited a 62 per cent increase in female unemployment in the four years to January 1980, as compared with a decline of two per cent for men.
This year the number of jobless in Britain has hit a new post-war peak, climbing to almost 2:1 million.
Both men and women are hit, and vacancies are now at their lowest level since the beginning of 1977, according to the Employment Gazette.
Yet up to a year ago, a thousand women a month on average came into maid the period 1976-79. then the boom which had brought women onto the labour market in the '60s had well and truly fizzled out. Female unemployment ing, as the TUC figure shows.
Decline The decline in jobs, depriving women of their livelihood, as it does for men, also deprives them of choices they make about how to run their lives choices men have always been free to make.
That doesn't make malé unemployment more acceptable, point to the wider consequences of female unemployment.
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TUC policy as well as were beginning to local raise but it does ment. effectively we have to fight for jobs for unions must therefore be careful not to fall into the Tories' trap.
Women should have an equal right to work as men. Many of the women who have taken jobs outside the home have joined trade unions, boosting the numerical strength of the movement forming the majority some of the TUC's biggest unions.
The danger is that it is easier for the government to be discriminatory over employment without being about it in its policies.
For even social has taken extensive to reveal just how women fare at work and out of work, because discrimination is largely hidThis danger needs to be recognised and countered if the movement is to tackle the unemployment generated government. Trade unionists should be fighting to implement the for posiuve action including for Socialist Challenge is supporting a special contingent to demand action around 'A women's right to work' on the joint Labour Party/TUC demonstration against unemployment to be held in Liverpool on 29 November.
We're asking trade union branches, Labour Party and women s groups to do this so that women can their voices in solidarity men in the fight against unemployblatant MAS badly on partTHEIR CRISIS INIT OUR JOBS WE DEMAND WOMEN'S unemployment is up 62 per cent over the past four years THEIR CRISIS OUR JOBS
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Reprinted from 'Women in Action' {JOBS