Is the lockdown an excuse for the Tories to force mothers out of work and into the home?
The headline says it all.
It needs more research, but…
Tory policies have hit women hardest since they got back into office in 2010.
They are institutionally sexist.
So I was not surprised to see this:
We ran a poll yesterday with over 2000 mothers of primary school aged kids. 21% said they had either lost their job or quit since the second lockdown started. TWENTY ONE PERCENT. We are witnessing a generational roll back in maternal employment that will take decades to repair
— PregnantThenScrewed (@PregnantScrewed) January 9, 2021
I wonder if we’ll ever see any outrage about it, though. It seems too easy to silence protest in the UK now.
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Dear Vox Political, Women tend to earn less than men, so the closure of schools means women more likely to stay at home for childminding. Women’s furlough should be 100 per cent of their wages for all of 2021.
Nothing can be done about that until the vaccines reach over 70 per cent of all adults and we return to normality.
For that to happen the real battle is against the vaccines not being delivered by the Pfizer 21 days between 2 jabs and 28 days for AstraZeneca and Moderna’s 2 jabs. Certainly against the single jab for any of those jabs.
And 1960s born gran (now turning 60) could help, by government amending all pension laws since 1995, to return to pension age 60 for women, which would also save welfare admin, as men could return to Pension Credit from age 60, or if aged before 66 / 67 now.
The 1950s women who lost half a decade of state pension since 2013, are now retiring back in big numbers at age 66, so the few left not yet 66, could be granted full pensioner status / paid monthly state and full works pension from now onwards. We have time before the new tax year of April 2021. This would not stop the Supreme Court case for full restitution compensation by the 1950s ladies who have retired, or for the years above 60 for the ladies able to retire before 66 now, by the amendment of 1995, 2007, 2011 and 2014 pension acts.