Gender + Poverty

Question 0

–% rise of LPs since —

Answer 0

24% since 1997

Question 1

How many kids with LPs

Answer 1

300,000

Question 2

–% MLPs in work compared to –% of WLPs

Answer 2

63%

48%

Question 3

Why are LPs in poverty?

Answer 3

• lack of affordable, quality daycare
• hard to find employment to fit around care commitments
• ^leads to part-time work or none

Question 4

GC: The late — started to show improvements for woman in work.

Answer 4

Late 1990s

Question 5

In what positions are woman under represented in?

Answer 5

Top manager and decision making positions

Question 6

–% of business leader are women

Answer 6

9%

Question 7

–% face a — or —- when they become preggers

Answer 7

20%
Cut in pay
Dismissal

Question 8

Woman have made inroads at every level of management except for?

Answer 8

At the top of the largest corporations

Question 9

How many MPs were woman in the 1980s? How many now?

Answer 9

5% in the 80s, 22% now

Question 10

Women carers are unable to — therefore —

Answer 10

1. Maintain uninterrupted employment

2. Have an inadequate pension

Question 11

Woman are more likely to take care of whom?

Answer 11

Kids or elderly/ disabled family members

Question 12

What don’t many women carers get?

Answer 12

Occupational pensions and can’t afford prove pensions so stay in poverty into old age

Question 13

How many women are in part time work compared to men?

Answer 13

1 in 2 women

1 in 6 men