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Women March

First Posted: 20/11/11 19:05 GMT Updated: 20/11/11 22:00 GMT

With the number of women out of work across the UK hitting a 23-year high of 1.09 million, protesters marched against cuts to women's employment yesterday.

The 'Don’t Turn Back Time' on women’s equality marches saw women, and men, dressed in 1950s clothes, march in London, Brighton, Manchester, Stratford and Coventry.

Anna Bird, acting chief executive of the Fawcett Society, told Sky News that the Government's approach to reducing the deficit was "pushing women out of the workplace".

"At the same time, women are bearing the brunt of cuts to benefits - £11bn of the £18bn cut through changes to tax and benefits each year is coming from women's pockets," she said.

"Decades of steady, albeit slow, progress on equality for women is being dismantled, as cuts to women's jobs and the benefits and services they rely on turn back time on women's equality."

A report by the society found that two thirds of local government jobs cut belonged to women. The report measured employment in that sector from the first quarter of 2010 and the second quarter of 2011.

The national unemployment rate currently sits at 8.3%, or 2.62 million, according to the Office For National Statistics. The unemployment rate is the highest since 1996 and the number of total unemployed people is the highest since 1994.

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With the number of women out of work across the UK hitting a 23-year high of 1.09 million, protesters marched against cuts to women's employment yesterday. The 'Don’t Turn Back Time' on women’...
With the number of women out of work across the UK hitting a 23-year high of 1.09 million, protesters marched against cuts to women's employment yesterday. The 'Don’t Turn Back Time' on women’...
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10:41 AM on 11/21/2011
I missed this on the TV news. Did any of the channels report this. Nothing in my regional paper either. Perhaps if some of them had got arrested, it would have more widely reported.
10:35 AM on 11/21/2011
Hope they have their rolling pins with them .Look out Dave ,George and Nick
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08:54 AM on 11/21/2011
All Cameron would say is 'Calm Down Dear'. He and his Cabinet are only concerned with keeping their friends and relatives, the rich richer and ordinary people paying for it.
07:27 AM on 11/21/2011
Q ... How many marches and public demonstrations will it take before CaMoron and Clogg start to realise that the public are angry,frustrated and looking for some answers ....?

A... As many as you like they are to pig ignorant to care ..!
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08:31 AM on 11/21/2011
the gov we have just dont care all they want to do is bring our country down to the lowest possible standard hence theysteamroller any and every change they can. we can have all the demos we can organise they just laugh behind close doors
10:38 AM on 11/21/2011
You sum them up well their arrogance is top notch
04:50 AM on 11/21/2011
How dare the nanny state run out of money? This is an outrage. Hand me one of them signs. I should be home on the couch right now having a spot of tea.
02:06 AM on 11/21/2011
Where are the LibDems in all of this and NHS changes?
12:51 AM on 11/21/2011
What complete nonsense, this is just another cynical excuse for feminist militancy. Job cuts are not gender driven but simply about the cutting back of jobs.

My company made about 30 people redundant a few months ago and, guess what, the only ones kept from the department were all women except one man. Did I look at this by gender? Did I scream positive discrimination? No I simply looked at it by numbers and what was necessary.

How pathetic, how predictable. I have no doubt some sexism remains but I am equally certain that there are a huge number of people who do not want to admit equally as they will no longer have anything to complain about.
01:54 AM on 11/21/2011
spot on
12:11 AM on 11/21/2011
The cuts affect everybody, not just women. And if women were getting most of the benefits then it's perfectly justified!
12:04 AM on 11/21/2011
The only time that MP's from any party think about us is at election time, otherwise they couldn't give a hoot, they go into the job with one thing in mind...building and feathering their own nests, they could cut us some slack on fuel prices if they really cared about us, but we all know that they won't,british politics has now reached a point where no matter who gets in, the muck just gets deaper, not for them but for us, I swore that after the last GE fiasco which saw us with this coalition circus, that I would not vote ever again, however, I will have one more crack of the whip, I have tried em all and been no better off under any of em, but I have never voted ukip, so thats what I am going to do the next time around as I have come to the conclusion that if nothing else they certainly cannot be any worse than these clowns, how can they be suprised for example, that we have now seen the highest unemployment ever, and yet they alone have been responsible for putting thousands of people out of work with their ill thought out policies it would be laughable if it were not so serious.
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04:16 AM on 11/21/2011
sorry have to correct you unemployment topped 3 million in 1982 another tory government seems thats all they want to do is put people out of work and more into poverty
06:33 AM on 11/21/2011
Sorry I should have said since the early eighties then, but no denying the fact that this present sham of a government have been responsible for massive job losses within their first term in office,elected governments are supposed to look after us, and yet the first thing they do is sack thousands of our forces personel, then cut loads of public services putting thousands more on the dole, and THEN they tell us that the rise in unemployment figures is some what worrying ......"HELLO knock nock Mr CaMoron hello anyone in there".
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10:40 PM on 11/20/2011
Its affecting everyone, except the very rich!
10:32 PM on 11/20/2011
Do they think that any mp from any party, cares. Not a jot, they treat us all with comptent, a necessary evil, to vote them into westminster.
10:53 PM on 11/20/2011
The "ONLY" Evil here, is the one that you yourself is committing willingly, by voting them into Westminster, since there is NO WAY on earth they can force your Arm should you wish to Vote differently, or not at all.
Therefore, any Contempt is committed willingly by yourself.
10:30 PM on 11/20/2011
So the workplace needs workers and not online shoppers .
10:21 PM on 11/20/2011
Always this feminist sexist agenda.

The curs & redundancies are hittng women hardest now as they are concentrated on the Public Services. Earlier, there were more redundancies in manufacturing and private enterprises - somehow I seem to have missed angry marches of 'Put Men First' saying they are discriminated against.
11:13 PM on 11/20/2011
The bigger issue is NOT about putting either Men, or Women First, but it is moreover about putting ALL the Working - Classes both Men and Women up against the UK 's Millionaire Self - Conserving Elite, whom are making everyone, and anyone except themselves Redundant, and Unemployed.
Not that it would make any difference to these useless Multi - Millionaire Politician's if they were doing nothing outside of Politic's, since they are doing absolutely nothing whatsoever either for the Poor, Unemployed, Disabled, or Pensioner's while they also remain at Westminster.
10:19 PM on 11/20/2011
Sacrifice needs to be shared and people need to feel the government is working in their best interests.

The inequality of society today has been a campaign by the wealthy that has gone on for years.

It is time for the wealthy to pay their fair share. They benefited from the policies of the past two decades. Now they need to share in the sacrifice.

People feel betrayed by their government, business and the wealthy.

The phone hacking scandal has exposed the ties between the media, police, politicians and the wealthy. No wonder people have lost faith in the ethics of their institutions.
10:03 PM on 11/20/2011
Something else our news media did not tell us about!!!!!
05:50 AM on 11/21/2011
4 Fans, I'm reporting you for apostrophe abuse!