Workplace equality: CMI urges employers to do more to support female staff

A new report by the TUC reveals that female workers face a worsening situation when it comes to achieving equality and, in the event of deep public spending cuts, female workers will be hardest hit, facing widespread job losses and a reduction in post-retirement income.

The TUC’s findings come as the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) urges organisations to take steps to protect their female employees by opening up a debate on diversity in the workplace (www.managers.org.uk/debatediversity). It also follows CMI’s latest Economic Outlook survey which revealed that the relative advantage in job security female managers had over their male colleagues, in April 2009, has now disappeared.

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