Mums and older women become the new face of unemployment

Deliberate policies from both sides of politics have resulted in huge numbers of older women and those with young children relying on unemployment benefits with a new report revealing JobSeeker has become an early age pension for many Australians.

Where once younger men were most likely to need support and typically for less than 12 months, now it is most likely older women, and 71 per cent of them spend more than a year on JobSeeker or the old Newstart payment.The report found an explosion in the number of people spending years on the unemployment benefit, with 242,800 women on financial support for at least 12 months before this year's recession, compared to 73,700 women in 2007.

The budget office found a string of policies, including the Gillard government's tightening of parenting payment access, the Howard government's closure of the parenting payment allowance, and tightening of disability support pension access by both sides of politics had contributed to the large increase in women on assistance.

"Collectively, these policy changes have affected both men and women with a more pronounced impact on women as evident in the increased number of female recipients," it found.

Feminist writers can't stop banging on about how women are oppressed in Australia! Majority of the homeless are men. Majority of suicides are men. Majority of workplace accidents and deaths are men. Get over yourselves feminists.

This isn’t new, you’ve just never bothered to report on it before.

How long has SMH been in publication? Mums and older women have always been the face of unemployed

MUH POOR WAHMAN

Job Guarantee is needed.

The Union movement has been saying this for many years now.

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