That could be because women live longer than men on average..

What a stupid and nasty post. Can’t you celebrate anything nice happening to anyone, if they happen to be female? Your dislike of a powerful woman leads you to close your eyes to real suffering that she highlights. Just why do you think it is appropriate that the vast majority of the elderly poor are female, and why do you think it either moral or sensible to vilify someone for trying to prevent the same happening to our current workers? Harriet Harman is not asking charity handouts for working women, just the chance for them to be treated on an equal footing with the golden people born with a magic piece of flesh in their pants.

Many of us worried when stimulus spending was targeted at male-dominated workplaces. If, despite that, women’s employment in the formal sector is holding up well (God help the many part-time workers in the informal sector, male or female) that sounds like cause for celebration. And on your ostensible point, there is no evidence that men actually need their gender-specific rights in the workplace to be championed, though they have gained from the improvements campaigned for by women and granted to all workers. Men still get most of the pay and most of the promotions — and most of the protection of sunset industries, which may explain some of this employment difference. Would more earlier realism over those industries have served us better?

HH will get to work, raising the wages and cost of employing women so next month 38,000 more women than men will lose their jobs.

Equality and Socialism in perfect Harmany.

I know its a joke but we really don’t need a men’s movement like the women’s movement. We are in the dominant position. Still.

Yes they (Harman, Baird, Blears) got their analysis wrong of who would lose jobs more in this recession, but their logic wasn’t mad. They’ve gone quiet because what was thought to be a major problem isn’t.

@ LFATShaun, you are clearly being too cynical – there is no way that Labour could execute a policy that actually worked that well.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day…

http://www.maxim.com/girls/44066/worlds-hottest-politicians.html#10

BTS, interesting that in the DM article Harman drew attention to the fact that half of the Spanish cabinet are women – why did she not mention Silvio Berlusconi love of female politicians too?….

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227006/Clinton-Merkel-global-war-sexism-Harriet-Harman.html

Be warned – there is a photograph..