Revealed by Labour: women in their 30s £4,000 a year worse off than in 2010
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Anneliese Dodds slams Conservative failure to boost women’s living
standards Comes as figures show women aged 30-39 are £4,159 a
year worse off in real terms than when the Conservatives came to
power. New figures show huge regional disparities in women’s
living standards Labour pledges to put women at the heart of
the UK’s economic growth Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has today
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Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has today slammed the Conservatives for “thirteen years of failure" to deliver for women as new figures show that women aged 30-39 are almost £350 a month worse off than in 2010. Anneliese Dodds slammed the Conservatives for having "no plan for economic growth and no clue how to support women at work". She blamed the stark figures on “stagnant wages, low growth and a lack of interest in supporting women staying in, or re-entering, the workforce,” adding that Labour analysis of ONS figures found that women in their 30s are, on average, £4,159 a year worse off in real terms than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010. Figures shows that, when taken with the CPI inflation index, the median full-time woman worker’s salary for women aged 30-39 in April 2010 was the equivalent of £37,899. Today it is £33,740. Figures from the Fawcett Society show that a significant proportion of women not currently working would do so if flexible work was available to them. In her speech to Labour’s Annual Conference in October, Anneliese Dodds set out how policies such as flexible working from day one, support for women experiencing menopause and action to tackle sexual harassment will enable more women to progress their careers, contributing to economic growth. Anneliese Dodds, Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary, said: “The Conservatives crashed the economy and lumped working women with the bill. The last thing working women need is yet more Conservative failure. "Many women in their 30s are trying to get on the property ladder, get on at work and raise young children. But for too many the reality is a struggle to make ends meet, often worrying about the next bill, unable to work because of extortionate childcare or jobs that are too inflexible. “The Conservatives have no plan for economic growth and no clue how to support women at work. Labour has a clear plan to get our economy growing. We will put women at the heart of this growth with policies to support women at work.” House of Commons Library analysis also lays bare the stark regional differences in how women’s living standards have fared since 2010. Women across all regions of England are worse off in real terms compared with 2010. In London, women of all age groups are over £4,300 a year worse off, while women in the South East and Yorkshire and the Humber are over £2,000 worse off. The analysis comes in the week of Equal Pay Day, the moment that, according to the Fawcett Society, women effectively stop earning, relative to men. Earlier this month ONS figures showed that the UK’s gender pay gap for women in their 30s had more than doubled, from 2.3% in 2022 to 4.7% in 2023. The gender pay gap rose for women of all age groups, other than 18-21 year olds, and remains stubbornly high at 7.7% overall. Labour analysis recently found that the gender pay gap has fallen by just 2.4 percentage points since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 meaning, on current trends, the pay gap would not close until the 2060s. Ends
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