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Older Women Campaign

Older Women Campaign. Scarlet Harris Women’s Equality Officer TUC. Age Immaterial Some questions to consider: Who do we mean by “older women”? How are the issues faced by “older women” different to those faced by younger women? Or indeed by “older men”?. Older women and work

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Older Women Campaign

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  1. Older Women Campaign Scarlet Harris Women’s Equality Officer TUC

  2. Age Immaterial Some questions to consider: • Who do we mean by “older women”? • How are the issues faced by “older women” different to those faced by younger women? • Or indeed by “older men”?

  3. Older women and work • More women over 50 in employment (nearly 4m) • UK 5th highest employment rate for women over 50 in EU • Highest concentration of women aged 50-64 in Admin and secretarial roles (23%), Professional roles (20%), and Caring (15%).

  4. Women over 50 in the workplace: some issues identified by union members • Redundancies • Low pay • Age sex discrimination • Juggling care and work responsibilities • Age/gender related health issues

  5. Age and sex discrimination • Multiple discrimination faced by older women - particularly older BME women and older disabled women – as a factor in job losses amongst this group. • Older women being “managed out” on competency/health grounds. • Difficulty getting back into the labour market for women over 50 who lose their jobs.

  6. Caring • A fifth of women between 45 and 54 are grandmothers, while half of women between 55 to 59 (below SPA) are grandmothers • 9.1 per cent of over 50s have taken care of someone in the past week – largely partner or elderly parent • The majority of informal care is provided by retired grandmothers between 55 and 64 but increasingly older women are staying in work for longer so this is set to change. • Cost of formal childcare also likely to impact on working grandmothers

  7. Pay • Women in their 50s earn nearly a fifth less than men of the same age – the widest gender pay gap of any age group • A woman in her 50s working f/t currently earns £11.99 per hour– 18% less hour than a man of a similar age (£14.69). • Women in their 50s also earn less than women in their 30s (£14.17) and 40s (£12.93). • The majority of women over 50 in part-time work earn less than £10,000 a year.

  8. Older women and services • Coventry Women’s Voices report found that – contrary to media portrayals of older women “getting off lightly” – this group are doing very badly from cuts. • In particular, cuts to health services, transport, and social care affecting older women.

  9. Age Immaterial Campaign • Website • Case studies • Survey • Focus Groups • Resources for reps/members • Reports

  10. Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ageimmaterial • Open until 15th July • Open to men and women over 50 • Please distribute widely in your union

  11. Ways to get involved • Complete/distribute the survey • Write a blog for www.ageimmaterial.org • Participate in or help find participants for focus groups in Midlands • Follow the campaign on twitter @AgeImmaterial

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