No jobs for women - Official | IMGpapers 1976

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committee, THE GOVERNMENT supports discrimination against women — that's official.

This was revealed earlier this month al a meeting of Blaenau Gwent development which was considering an application by a firm in Brynmawr to extend their factory. The firm, Protective Clothing Ltd, at present employs about 50 women, and one member of the committee suggested that they be offered a new advance factory because of problems about extending the existing site.

Impossible, said the deputy clerk Mr John Williams. The Government would not make advance factories available to firms employing mainly women workers And this was confirmed next day by the Welsh Office, who said that they would be 'extremely reluctant' to do so.

This is fully in line with the Government's reaction to the August unemployment figure, as reported by the Press Association - that it was felt that ar 'encouraging factor is that in the last three months most of the increase in unemployment was among women'. The Welsh Office statement makes it clear that this is now a conscious policy.

The cosmetics of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts are rapidly peeling off to reveal the ugly face below. This heightens the need to make a woman's right to work a central feature of ans campaign against unemployment.