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Cutbacks mean more women unemployed -- NWCI
30.09.2009
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Cutbacks proposed in the McCarthy report, along with others which pre-dated it, would push women out of the workforce and into welfare dependency and poverty, Susan McKay, director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, said today.
She was speaking from the platform of the national march of community workers, employers and activists, protesting against proposed cuts to community projects across the country. At least 5,000 people had gathered outside the Dail by 2.30.
The new campaign, Communities Against Cuts, claims the 'An Bord Snip Nua' proposals could result in the loss of 6,500 jobs if implemented.
“Women didn’t get the power or the wealth during the boom years, but there would never have been prosperity in this country without our work. We worked for pay, low pay mostly, and we continued to do most of the unpaid work in our homes - and in our communities as well,” she said.
“We need to save our child benefit, our community centres, our women’s refuges, our lives. We need to stand together as women and tell the men who are running - and ruinning - this country that women want a say in our future. We need them to know that for women there is no going back.”
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