Economics

Women and recession: One year on

10th March 2010 — Filed under: Economics, Equality, Labour market, Public services

Nicola Smith Nicola Smith

We’ve just published a new review of the impacts that the recent downturn has had for women at work, and examining how proposed public sector cuts might have a heavy impact on working women and families.

I’ve written a post about the issue for Progress Online, which you can read over here.

One Response to Women and recession: One year on

  1. Trackback made by Recession Report #16: a better than expected labour market, but underemployment continues to rise | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC on Mar 10th 2010 at 3:35 pm:

    [...] jobs are intrinsically safer, but that more (around 40% of female employees nationally) work in public sector occupations where large scale redundancies have not taken place. Should large scale public sector cuts take [...]