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Around Made in Dagenham

Around Made in Dagenham. Useful vocabulary. Claim social benefits A threshold Deprivation Poor relief Childcare Unemployment rate The wage gap.

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Around Made in Dagenham

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  1. Around Made in Dagenham

  2. Usefulvocabulary Claim social benefits A threshold Deprivation Poor relief Childcare Unemployment rate The wage gap

  3. Women in the UK are more likely to sufferpovertythan men and are more vulnerable to poverty, unemployment and deprivation. Women are over-represented in statistics on poverty. Povertyis not gender-neutral. Women have lessopportunitythan men to work. Responsibility for childcare and domestic labour reduceswomen’savailibility for paid jobs.

  4. Between 1971 and 1990, the number of single parents increased by 60% to over a million families. Most of thesefamilieswereheaded by women. 65% of themwerepoorenough to claim social securitybenefits. 2.58 million women in full-time employmentearnedlessthan the EuropeanDecencyThreshold. Over 50% of full-time workingwomenwerelow-paid. At the start of the 20th century, 61% of adults on poor relief werewomen. In 1987, 60% of adult to whomsuchbenefitswerepaidwerewomen. Yet, dependency on relatives has dropped over the 20th century: women have grown more independentfinancially.

  5. « The sexual division of labour and the differenttasks and rolesadopted by men and women are at the root of femalepoverty » Moya Jones, « The Feminisation of Poverty » in Pauvreté et Inégalités en Grande Bretagne de 1942 à 1990, Danièle Frison (dir.), Paris, Ellipses, p.121. Because of gender-segregatedroleat home, women are oftenemployed in the public sector and in caringroles. They have littleaccess to responsibility jobs.

  6. After the war, the unemployment rate wasextremelylow but itstartedrisingafter 1967, reaching one million in 1975, two million in 1981. Over the sameperiod, the workers and manuallabourerswereat a greaterrisk of beingunemployed; the north of the country is more severely hit by unemployment. From 1968 to 1990, official figures indicatethatwomen are lesslikelythan men to beunemployed. This gap is due to the factthatwomen are lessoftenemployed in the industry but more oftenemployed in the public sector as civil servants. There are more part-time workersamongwomenthanamong men sothatthey are lesslikely to losetheir jobs.

  7. EqualPayAct, 1970 1970: EqualPayAct: the first legislation in the UK aimed at ending pay discrimination between men and women. 1975: The Sex Discrimination Act; The Employment Protection Act (grantingMaternityLeave)

  8. Dagenham • The Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968 was a landmark labour-relations dispute. The strike began on 7 June, 1968, when women manufacturing car seat covers in Dagenham plant in Essex decided to stop working. They argued that they were regarded as unskilled and wrongly ranked in Category B instead of Category C and that they were less paid than unskilled man. • Barbara Castle, the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity in Harold Wilson's government responded to the situation and the strike ended after three weeks of conflict: the women’s pay was increased by to 8% below that of men, rising to the full category B rate the following year.

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