Women say no going back…NWCI join with community sector to march against proposed cuts

Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Susan McKay, Director of the NWCI speaking from the platform of today's national march of community workers, employers and activists, protesting against proposed cuts to community projects across the country, said 'Women didn't get the power or the wealth during the boom years, but there would never have been prosperity in this country without our work. We worked for pay, low pay mostly, and we continued to do most of the unpaid work in our homes - and in our communities as well.'

According to the NWCI, cutbacks proposed in the McCarthy report, along with others which pre-dated it, would push women out of the workforce and into welfare dependency and poverty; would lead to the scaling down or closure of women's groups which provide vital services; and would halt progress towards equality for women.

'We need to save our child benefit, our community centres, our women's refuges, our lives. We need to stand together as women and tell the men who are running - and ruinning - this country that women want a say in our future. We need them to know that for women there is no going back' Ms Mc Kay concluded.