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Women may have to quit jobs to fill care roles #post-Brexit, report warns

A dossier drawn up by ministers says they may have to plug a gap in EU care workers, but critics slam it as “remarkable misogyny”.

Women may have to give up work to look after elderly relatives unless EU care workers are given priority after Brexit, it has been reported.

The Daily Telegraph says that is the assessment made in a 37-page dossier drawn up by ministers on the impact of Britain leaving the EU.

The document allegedly warns that growing numbers of people, “especially women”, could be forced to quit their jobs to give “informal care” to parents and grandparents.

Under the “worst case scenario”, women living in Britain would likely plug the hole of 6,000 fewer doctors, 12,000 fewer nurses and 28,000 fewer care staff within five years.

This is because “greater numbers undertake informal care”, the report says.

It warns: "Considering rising life expectancy, population structural changes as well as increases in the number of people living with one or more long-term conditions, there are significant demand implications for the health and social care workforce.

"Unless we ensure such demand is met, there is a wider risk to labour market participation more generally, especially when considering increasing social care needs.

“If we fail to meet social care needs adequately we are likely to see a decrease in labour market participation levels, especially among women, as greater numbers undertake informal care.”

▻https://news.sky.com/story/women-may-have-to-quit-jobs-to-fill-care-roles-post-brexit-report-warns-11
#brexit #xénophobie #migrations #femmes #féminisme #misogynie #patriarcat

Avec ce commentaire sur FB, posté par @isskein :

Sara Farris « Wait a second?! Wasn’t the case that migrants are taking British people’s jobs? So now that migrant care workers might not be coming to the UK after Brexit, shouldn’t we see thousands of British women finally working as carers? Yes, sure, but for free! And after they give up their paid jobs apparently. The bullshit of migrants as economic threat here in full display! »

#hypocrisie #UK #Angleterre

SARA FARRIS /// European Femonationalism and Domestic Violence Against Women - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/sara-farris-european-femonationalism-domestic-violence-women

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This conversation with Sara Farris was recorded on August 7, 2017 to be featured as a transcript in the 13th issue of The Funambulist Magazine (Sept-Oct. 2017) Queers, Feminists & Interiors. It attempts to link the work she presents in her book, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017) with the violence against women that femonationalist discourses deliberately ignore (as these violences are exercised through what we could call “a universalist patriarchy”): domestic violence. The conversation first presents the political concept of femonationalism in the context of Europe, and then proceeds to describe the several dimensions of violence against women in domestic spaces.

Sara Farris is a senior lecturer in the sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill 2013) and In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke 2017). Sara’s work to date has focused on the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory, which she explored in my first monograph on Max Weber’s sociology of religion, and on theories of gender, race and social reproduction, particularly as they apply to the analysis of migrant women in Western Europe. Through these theoretical lenses and interests, Sara has examined theories of racism and nationalism; the specific gendered forms of Orientalist/Westocentric representations of women in the Western public discourse; the mobilization of women’s rights by right-wing nationalist parties within xenophobic campaigns (which Sara calls ‘Femonationalism’)