Spending cuts: Working women will pay

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COMMENT: Any news channel you watched at lunchtime today would have had the fresh faced Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, beaming at you with a smile whilst he announced pain inflicting cuts across the UK.

These budget propositions were touted as “progressive” by our youngest chancellor since the 1800s but, as the Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson pointed out, it is hard to be progressive when women are to bear the brunt of paying for the deficit.

The major issue I have here is the raising of the pension age for both men and women to 66 by 2020.

Now, I do find the gap between men and women’s retirement ages pointless. It is an historical concept from when women where viewed as less able than men, which time and time again has been proven wrong.

It also dates to a time when there were far less women in the workplace – something that again has rightfully changed over recent years and will continue to improve for the better.

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