A women’s rights organization yesterday criticized the government for failing to afford women equal treatment in its special budget for a four-year economic stimulus plan aimed at addressing the economic crisis.
In a report to mark International Women’s Day, the Awakening Foundation said the Executive Yuan’s NT$500 billion (US$14.38 billion) plan, which has a job-creation component, ignored unemployed women.
The lion’s share of the budget has been allocated for construction projects, while NT$36.7 billion will go toward maintaining employment stability and helping students in financial difficulty continue their education, the report said.
Citing Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics employment figures for 2007, the foundation said nearly 70 percent of workers in the industrial sector — mining, manufacturing, power/fuel/water supply, pollution treatment and construction — were male. The percentage of female workers in those industries was less than half the percentage of male employees, the foundation said.
The civic group said most of the people being forced to take unpaid leave were production-line workers, in particular female workers. It said this finding was based on the calls it has received from people seeking assistance.
Single mothers often choose to work part time or at places that offer flexible hours because they need time to look after their children, the foundation said.
However, low-skilled jobs are usually the first to be cut in an economic downturn, it said. As a result, single mothers are usually the first victims of a recession.
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