is calling a “triple whammy”. Women lost more jobs at the peak of the crisis, took on more unpaid work such as caring and teaching, and were less likely to get emergency support. But the federal government’s recovery package has beenGrattan Institute chief executive Danielle Wood said the government needed to provide more funding for services sectors, childcare and aged care, and create a recovery plan with women in mind.
She said longer-term investment in childcare was a critical way to help boost women’s workforce participation. Grattan’s researchers have previously called for childcare to be made permanently free, following a short period of fee relief during the crisis. Women in the bottom fifth of wage earners have less than a 5 per cent chance of having enough super for the full period.
Why is The Age so obsessed with putting a gender spin on most stories.....
Pity about the blokes who have to recover....
50 plus and your on the scrap heap!!!!
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