Utopia Talk / Politics / british cuts hurt women 2x as hard as me

Pierre Member	Sat Oct 23 15:55:12 http://www.../22/cuts-women-spending-review Cuts will hit women twice as hard as men, Commons research shows Yvette Cooper says findings illustrate 'biggest reversal of women's opportunities and economic independence' since WW1 Measures announced in the comprehensive spending review will hit women twice as hard as men, according to research by the House of Commons library. Yvette Cooper, the shadow foreign secretary and shadow minister for equalities, who commissioned the research, said tonight that the changes represent the biggest reversal in opportunities for women since the end of the first world war Of the £8.5bn being raised by cutting direct contributions to individuals, £5.7bn â?? two thirds â?? is coming from women, while £2.7bn is being raised from men, the Commons library says. In June's emergency budget £5.8bn was raised from women and £2.2bn from men. That means that of the total £16bn being brought back into the exchequer by the coalition through direct tax benefit changes, £11bn will come from women. Cooper shows that 70% of tax credits including childcare, working tax credits and other support is paid to mothers, as is 94% of child benefit. Some 60% of housing benefit, also due to be cut, is paid to women. According to the Daycare Trust, the spending review amounts to a £1,500-a-year cut in help with childcare costs. Cooper compares the review to the period after the first world war when women who had been working had to stop because of the return of men from the front. "Cutting back measures like childcare and working tax credit, when women still earn much less than men, will mean women have more limited career prospects. "Women live on lower incomes yet they have chosen to take the majority from women," she said. "You have to go back in history to find anything comparative. Not since the end of the first world war have we seen such a complete reversal of women's opportunities and economic independence. We haven't seen an attempt to turn the clock back like this for very many generations." Under the 2006 Equality Act, the government has a legal duty to give "due regard" to the impact on women of all its policies and to mitigate any changes that look likely to adversely affect women. Over the summer the Treasury admitted it had not done a gender impact assessment on its June emergency budget. The women's rights group the Fawcett Society will get a date for a "permission hearing" in the next few weeks when its lawyers and the Treasury's lawyers will decide with a high court judge whether the issue should be adjudicated through a judicial review. Although the government made sure to do an impact assessment this time round, it only highlighted that its proposed changes to employment support allowance could disproportionately hit men. The research by the House of Commons library takes this into account. Cooper described the Treasury's impact assessment as "pathetic". She said: "It shows they have learned nothing from the Fawcett judicial review process and from the shocking evidence we found at the time of the emergency budget. Instead of trying to mitigate the effects [of June's budget], they have made it worse. "George Osborne clearly doesn't understand the importance to women of having some income paid directly to them â?? Beveridge got that 60 years ago. He got it when he introduced the family allowance paid directly to women. Why on earth are ministers so blind to this now? "At the time of the emergency budget some people suggested the government had just screwed up and didn't realise the impact of their measures on women â?? this time it's clear it's deliberate." Cooper argues that 300,000 women's jobs in the public sector will go, with 65% of public sector jobs done by women. Women will also be more heavily affected by increases in public sector pension contributions.
Rugian Member	Sat Oct 23 15:56:48 Yes, cuts in government welfare hurt the weaker members of society more. Women suck and aren't able to take care of themselves without sucking on the government teat; how is this news?
Pierre Member	Sat Oct 23 15:59:04 "Yvette Cooper says findings illustrate 'biggest reversal of women's opportunities and economic independence' since WW1 " taking women back 100 years is a bad thing rugian the caveman... they need more opportunities and independence not less.. the british are trying to ruin them.. why not do cuts in a fair way...? why do ones that hurt women twice as hard as men..?
General Public Member	Sat Oct 23 16:00:19 "british cuts hurt women 2x as hard as me" You.are.such.a.fag.
Nekran Member	Sat Oct 23 16:05:11 "taking women back 100 years" 'Since WW1' doesn't mean back to WW1 levels, you douche.
habebe Member	Sat Oct 23 16:15:20 " Cuts will hit women twice as hard as men" Women deserve to get hit twice as hard, other than cooking, cleaning and sucking cock getting hit is what they are good for.
habebe Member	Sat Oct 23 16:19:54 http://wan...d-by-the-entire-football-team/ Pierre, Here is an instructional video on what women are for.
Canadian Member	Sat Oct 23 21:59:41 Audio is too loud in your link habebe. Fuck, I'm pretty sure even HR would be able to hear it.
Rugian Member	Sat Oct 23 22:05:14 I loved the background music. I'm having trouble believing that they would have gotten the permission of any organization that owned a full-scale football stadium to film that, though.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sun Oct 24 00:00:41 Your link was completely fucking ignorant Habebe. at no point does she cook or clean. You should have clarified and stated it was ONE of the things women were good for.,
NeverWoods Member	Sun Oct 24 01:15:51 Look at the doggy trying to get some attention. Cute.
habebe Member	Sun Oct 24 11:48:47 Just for all info, you know I posted what I did soley to pis of the eunuch. cth, Well for me personally I think women in general make lousy cooks, and I didn't actually watch that particular video, but I'm sure she cleaned some cock.
eds Member	Sun Oct 24 12:19:39 I want the cuts to hurt 100% only women, just to piss Pierre off.
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