Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood?
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Women will be hit disproportionately by the Budget cuts already announced by the government: A new study suggests that they will shoulder nearly three quarters of the burden, because they rely more on the state for benefits and are more likely to work in the public sector than men.
The state has reduced women's dependency on men, only to install itself as the new patriarch. If the state shrinks, it will be women who will feel the difference
Is this what generations of feminists have fought for? Where is the sisterhood now, marching on the treasury? Jo Fidgen goes in search of modern feminism in the rubble of the economy and asks whether being a woman is no longer a political state.
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| 0:47.1 | week's analysis Joe Fijon will be asking why feminists haven't been marching on |
| 0:51.4 | the Treasury in protest at the budget cuts which are |
| 0:54.5 | estimated to hit women nearly three times harder than men. |
| 0:59.2 | Remember the good old days when the sisterhood was on the march. |
| 1:03.2 | Back in 1968 the female staff at the Ford plant in Dagenham |
| 1:07.1 | set the standard. |
| 1:08.4 | We're on the lowest rate and the whole of the bleeding factory, |
| 1:10.8 | despite the fact we got considerable skill. |
| 1:13.0 | And there's only one possible reason for that. |
| 1:17.0 | It's because we're women. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes. |
| 1:20.0 | This strike is about one thing and one thing only fairness. |
| 1:25.0 | Equal pay or nothing. |
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