By Jalna Hanmer
During this moment version of a vintage textual content, the alterations within the lives of girls utilizing social providers and girls operating in them are sensitively charted with the purpose of reflecting on how non-sexist women-centred perform will be nurtured and built. preserving its unique emphasis on attitudes, values and the social welfare context, the textual content explores the center components of poverty, paintings (including supplying aid for kids and adults), violence and familial relationships, yet with a higher emphasis at the very important diversities created by means of age, incapacity and employment, in addition to through race, classification and sexuality.
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5. 6. What do you think you have in common with women using services? How do you think you differ from them? What do you think are the most important ways in which women who use services are: (i) Worse off (ii) Better off than women social workers or care staff? Can you think of a social or community situation in which you feel powerful? Can you think of social or community situations in which you feel powerless? What factors contribute to these experiences? What are the major advantages and disadvantages for you as a woman in your current post?
If movement is taking place, it is likely to be because of redundancy or between qualifying and finding employment. The forces for restructuring the social services will continue for the foreseeable future. Some women will have difficulties returning to work after a period away, for example after the birth of a child, when caring for a relative, as a result of illness or because they are tied to a particular geographical area by a partner's work or family responsibilities. There are geographical variations in the availability of employment and the level of remuneration, but the problems faced are unlikely to be as great as those of many people who use services.
The contribution that husbands made to the overall household income fell in the 1980s, and if more women had not taken up employment, the gap between rich and poor families would be greater than it already is. In the 1990s, 1 in 3 children live in poverty. Lone motherhood is still a major source of exclusion from employment. In 1992, 42 per cent of lone parents were in employment, and this figure has not changed much since the early 1980s. One-third of all lone parents are just managing, but with escalating debts.
