Follows Hot On Heels Of Impassioned Statements On Televised Leaders Debate.
A Vote For The Greens Is A Vote For Gender Equality
Wales Green Party Leader Pippa Bartolotti is passionate about bringing equality to women in Wales and it showed during last Friday’s televised leaders debate on BBC live from Cardiff.
The only one of the 6 representatives to highlight the terrible inequality in pay between the genders Bartolotti appealed to the woman of Wales to make the sensible choice in the upcoming elections by supporting the only party that is on record as wanting to support them.
“It is shocking to me that women in Wales are still subjected to a gender pay gap which denies them equal pay. Women managers get on average £4000 less than men for doing the same job. Austerity hits women hardest. It is they who so often have to manage the household poverty purse, who have to buy cheap unhealthy food for their children, and who often do more than one job just to make ends meet” said Bartolotti following on her from her televised comments.
“The Equal Pay Act has not been enforced voluntarily, so more legislation needs to be made so that companies, by law, have to publish their full pay data. We have to stamp out this gross injustice forced on half the workforce in our country.”
The Wales Green Party is committed to redressing the balance and restoring gender equality across the board.
Highlighting this fact Bartolotti shared her original reasons for becoming a Wales Green Party member:
“Fortunately almost every man belonging to the Green Party is a feminist, and that, along with a duty not to trash the environment on which we all depend, is why I joined up. Greens would abolish the gender pay gap for good. True equality is a long time coming, and it will not be handed to us on a plate. Until we resist this type of repression, we will never succeed in eliminating any other form of repression.”