Working Women

The economy relies on finance and industry to create the wealth, to employ people and to pay taxes that enable the government to redistribute wealth to those who need it most ………and it is the job of politics to change society.

Women now form 46% of the economically active workforce. Women account for 55% of university graduates in Europe but their employment rate is 21% lower than men. According to the European commission, the average wage gap between men and women is 15%. Women occupy only 12.2% of board seats of the FTSE 100 and only 5.5% are executive directors. Women are less likely to have full-time jobs; 33% of women work part time compared to 7% of men. Women’s policy comes from the left but most of their votes go to the right.

Does gender diversity need our special attention?

Want to help us do something about it?

Email me at Lorina.Pilgrim@Centencia.org and I will send you some background detail and the agenda for the forthcoming meetings and progress with the Working Women’s Group. I hope you can join me – there is lots to do!

Best regards,

Lorina Pilgrim
Lorina.Pilgrim@Centencia.org
07753958550

Next meeting: TBC

Future meetings: TBC