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Worldwide downturn 'to hit women'
BBC ^

Posted on 03/05/2009 9:37:12 PM PST by traumer

The economic crisis could increase the number of unemployed women by up to 22 million this year, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

In a report assessing employment trends for women, the ILO warns that they will not escape the downturn.

The global crisis began in the financial sectors of the world's richest countries, in jobs traditionally dominated by men.

But unemployment is now spreading well beyond these sectors, the ILO says.

Jeff Johnson, author of the report, says: "The sectors that were initially impacted the hardest, which were finance, insurance and real estate, construction and manufacturing were often dominated by male workers.

"But as this crisis has played out, it's hit other sectors of the economy, service orientated sectors wholesale retail trade which in many industrialised economies are dominated by females."

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1 posted on 03/05/2009 9:37:12 PM PST by traumer
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WOMEN and MINORITIES FIRST !


2 posted on 03/05/2009 9:37:42 PM PST by traumer
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To: traumer

No smarmy web post ever fed a starving child.


3 posted on 03/05/2009 9:38:39 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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Talikng about hitting women. How’s about that Chris Brown dude?


4 posted on 03/05/2009 9:38:59 PM PST by Tempest (There's a storm coming...)
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Ike Turner is rolling over in his grave.


5 posted on 03/05/2009 9:41:51 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: traumer

Sugar daddies are harder to come by now days.


6 posted on 03/05/2009 9:42:54 PM PST by Swordfished
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Business with feminism or any other pathological social trend is unsustainable. Feminism must go away. And it will, as layer upon layer of Ponzi schemes supporting the bribe (debt) pyramid for extreme trade imbalances caves in. Speaking of caves, our bosses have to deal with their worthlessly pedigreed, radical social, left/liberal witches at home by themselves, or those few who survive the coming years will end-up living in caves. We will no longer be subjected to their shrews.


7 posted on 03/05/2009 9:43:36 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: traumer

...and here I thought we were talking about female assassins!


8 posted on 03/05/2009 9:56:30 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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gosh, i’m confused...didn’t last week’s propaganda proudly boast that more men were laid off than women?


9 posted on 03/05/2009 9:57:26 PM PST by ken21 (the only thing we have to fear is fdr deja vu.)
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World ends, women and children hard hit.


10 posted on 03/05/2009 10:07:18 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: traumer

As I understand it, it will hit men as well.

Stupid article.


11 posted on 03/06/2009 12:52:21 AM PST by beagleone
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