Oh Dear : Read it and weep....

[Helios]

Wish she was my sec

[mcquiggd]

Plans to help women in workplace

Ruth Kelly will outline a raft of new initiatives aimed at helping women
Proposals aimed at boosting the prospects of women in the workplace are to be unveiled by the government.

Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will say enabling women to get better jobs could be worth up to £23bn a year to the UK economy. (at whose expense....? Not by cutiting full time staff surely.....????)

Initiatives will include pilot schemes to test new recruitment and career pathways for at least 10,000 women.

It is a response to a report published in February into the barriers which lead to women earning less than men.

Initiatives to be unveiled by Ms Kelly are expected to include a national campaign to encourage businesses to sign up as "exemplar employers" offering women help with flexible working, time-share and good quality part-time work.

'Gender stereotyping'

She will say 80 companies and organisations, including Accenture, BAE Systems, BT, BP and Centrica, have already signed up. (Now are the alarm bells ringing yet ...?)



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5333354.stm



When will governments stop concentrating on women / blacks/ albinos / disabled and just simply give people a chance to get a job, keep it, and not be taxed to death.