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Originally Posted by nomadking
Any increase in female employment would be at the expense of male employment.
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Is there some sort of rule that dictates this?
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Originally Posted by Derek
Either that or the SNP are saying the only reason thousands of women are not starting and growing their own businesses is down to child care issues.
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It is in part.
However it's not unique to Scotland. Take for example
single parent mothers. There are many hundreds of thousands of stay at home one parent mothers of various age groups throughout the UK whose circumstances are such that they are happier staying at home, not working and getting free or subsidised housing via Income Support, Housing Benefit and JSA (or variations thereof) rather than going out to work or starting up and growing businesses.
An independent Scotland could legislate for changes to their welfare system where this is no longer either an attractive, and indeed in some cases default, mindset for many single mothers.
A forced return to work by means of a revised welfare bill will generate more revenue taxes.