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The more the #budget and its implications sink in, the more I feel my anger rising.
Our Govt has learned nothing from last year. Think about it. When everything else was stripped back and stripped away, what remained? What, in the end, was essential?
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The more the #budget and its implications sink in, the more I feel my anger rising.
Our Govt has learned nothing from last year. Think about it. When everything else was stripped back and stripped away, what remained? What, in the end, was essential?
1/5
We relied on our NHS and care homes, the schools and nurseries that look after our children and enabled key workers to keep going. The supermarkets and the chemists.
Our caring economy, built on the labour of women, never stopped working for a moment. Because it couldn’t.
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Our caring economy, built on the labour of women, never stopped working for a moment. Because it couldn’t.
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Women make up 77% of the health workforce, 83% of social care and 92% of childcare, with women from ethnic minorities over-represented.
We may be seen as the 'second sex' but in the face of this pandemic women were the first line of defence. Because caring is essential work.
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We may be seen as the 'second sex' but in the face of this pandemic women were the first line of defence. Because caring is essential work.
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Yet - despite everything we learned last year this #budget offered nothing, NOTHING AT ALL, no support for our groaning, struggling social and childcare sectors which are both on the verge of implosion.
It's despicable to pay essential workers with claps and badges.
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It's despicable to pay essential workers with claps and badges.
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When childcare and social care falls apart women pick up the pieces by doing more unpaid care. This limits their ability to: (i) unlock their potential and talent and as employed workers; and (ii) contribute in a material way to the HMT's bottom line. This is a huge own goal.
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