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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Becky Barrow, Business Correspondent
Last updated at 9:23 AM on 16th February 2012
Twice as many women as men are losing their jobs – with older workers among the worst-hit victims of the ballooning unemployment problem, official figures revealed yesterday.
The Office for National Statistics said 32,000 women became unemployed between October and December, compared with only 16,000 men.
During that period, the number of unemployed women also hit its highest level since 1987.
bleak: Women, and especially the over 50s, are increasingly finding themselves out of work (file picture)
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And in a further blow, older women aged 50 and above are among the biggest losers from the crisis in the jobs market.
Last year the number of unemployed women between 50 and 64 rocketed by nearly 20 per cent.
As a result, there are 145,000 unemployed women in this age group – more than there have been since records began in 1992, the ONS confirmed. The news came as the overall unemployment rate yesterday rose to a 16-year high of 8.4 per cent of the workforce.
In total unemployment jumped by 48,000, to 2.67million, at the end of last year.
The figures also showed a record number are working part-time – up by 83,000 to 1.35million. Again the effect is felt most among women, according to the ONS, with around 750,000 saying they ‘could not find a full-time job’.
As a result, they are doing jobs which are typically poorly paid and at a level which is far below their skill and experience. Yvette Cooper, Labour’s shadow minister for women, last night accused the Coalition of having ‘a blind spot on women’ and urged ministers to ‘change tack’.
Criticisms: Yvette Cooper
She said: ‘More women are being forced out of work and back into the home by a combination of cuts to jobs and childcare.’
Graeme Cooke, an associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, said: ‘Women are bearing the brunt of rising unemployment.’
The timing could not be worse, in particular for the older generation of working women who are also being hit by the Government’s decision to rapidly increase the State pension age.
Nearly six unemployed are chasing every job vacancy, with the overall toll of unemployed increasing by around one million since the credit crunch began in 2007.
Experts said they were alarmed by the fact around one in three of those unemployed has been out of a job for more than 12 months.
Of the 2.67million total, the ONS said 860,000 have been trying to find work for more than a year.
Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said the UK jobs market is experiencing ‘a slow, painful contraction’.
He added: ‘Unemployment will crawl towards three million by the end of the year, rather than a sudden surge of joblessness.’ And Nida Ali, economic adviser to the accountants Ernst Young’s ITEM Club, said: ‘The labour market outlook is still pretty dismal.’
Overall, employment rose between October and December by 60,000 to 29.1million, largely driven by part-time positions being filled.
Lord Freud, the minister for welfare reform, said that it was a sign the private sector is ‘still creating jobs’, but admitted competition for work is ‘tough’.
Anna Bird, acting chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said the rise in women’s unemployment was ‘turning back time’ on equality, adding: ‘These new figures must act as a wake-up call to Government – we are in a time of crisis.
‘Cuts are threatening women’s equality as jobs dry up, benefits are slashed and vital public services disappear.’
Meanwhile Lord Lawson, chancellor under Margaret Thatcher, came under fire yesterday for urging Labour peers to ‘learn a little patience’ over weak economic growth.
Shadow Treasury minister Cathy Jamieson said his comment ‘betrayed the sheer complacency and lack of urgency’ from the Government at a time of high unemployment.
She added: ‘Telling the 1.4million who have been out of work for more than six months to have a little patience shows just how out of touch the Tories are.’
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In my experience – if you get a “good” woman in a job – you have a gem that is well worth keeping. An efficient woman can knock the spots off most men – I just hate having to even say that – but (sadly) it’s true. You can give them a task – then walk away – just forget about it – and let them get on with it…. it – WILL – be done. Employment-wise… I have always found that a woman on a mission – can be quite scary. But – you do have to sort out the good ones – from the air-heads.
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Raising the retirement age along with the recession, and cut-backs in public employment does naturally means that there are less jobs for people to go in to. We need to drop the retirement age NOW, before the OFFICIAL unemployment figures reach three million. Something that may well happen by the end of the year.
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It is unfortunate but that is because the previous government made it a priority to employ women in the government (non)jobs that they created. During the 70s, 80s and 90s when they closed the mines, shipyards,car manufacturers etc the people suffering were 95% men. I didn’t hear any women MPs complaining about inequality then.
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The public sector employs a higher % of women, particularly in non jobs. It follows that any real reduction in public sector employment will affect women disproportionately.
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How an earth that awful woman Yvette Cooper has managed to cling on to her job is beyond me. Surely if there was any reward for abject failure, she and her creepy husband really hit the jackpot. I laugh when I hear either of them preach to us ….. their opinions sound oh so hollow and baseless after the terrible damage they inflicted on us in the wilderness of the labour years in power. May the unemployed be joined by two more ………
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Since most public sector workers are women, and we urgently need to reduce the size of the public sector in order to avoid national bankruptcy, the only way to avoid female-dominated job losses would be to actively discriminate against men when deciding who to sack. Although I’m certain that Yvette Cooper and Harriet Harman would celebrate such a philosophy.
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there are still more men (in total numbers and as a percentage of the workforce) than women. But there were no bells rung when that happened…
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After the draconian and totally sexist laws were brought in by that horrible man hater Harriet Harman I am not surprised one iota. I certainly wouldn’t hire a woman now if I still had my business in the UK. You would have to be mad to.
That is the trouble with these clowns, especially in the Labour party. It sounds great but doesn’t work in the real world. It only works in the La La land they seem to believe they live in.
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Before all you DM women-haters post comments, suggesting that it’s no big deal if women lose their jobs/a woman employed is a man on the dole, well it is a big deal. Whilst male council managers keep their jobs, all the (female) social workers, care assistants, teachers, teaching assistants, et al. lose their jobs, thus putting more pressure on frontline public services.
And when you find that because of nursing home companies/local councils having to make cuts, the care home your mum/dad was in, you might end up wishing that women were not bearing the brunt of the cuts, as it will be up to you to care for your mum and/or dad.
Also, if a woman loses her job, it places more pressure on her husband to find a better-paid job to make up for the shortfall in family income.
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The Marxists feminist in the Labour party such as Yvette Cooper are to blame for forcing women out to work and into low paid and low skilled jobs that were more often than not part time. If they had cared for women instead of trying to break the dependance of women on men by forcing them out to work, they would have ensured that women had decent jobs. However deciding what to do after reading some textbook instead of looking around them and acting upon their life experiences and the experiences of others has created heartache for a lot of women who had high expectations thanks to the Marxist Feminist spin of the Labour party.
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