Diane raises alarm over job cuts that could set equality back generations  

Diane has called for ethnic and gender monitoring to be carried out before public bodies axe jobs to prevent a disproportionate impact on minority communities. Diane says that a “last in, first out” approach to redundancies would hit black and female workers particularly hard because they have more recently make up a large proportion of the public sector, and She called for new requirements for local councils, Government agencies and quangos to be “mindful” of the race and gender distribution of any job losses they are planning. Figures show that out of the 6 million people that work in the public sector, 4 million are women and over 500,000 workers are of black and ethnic minority backgrounds. Diane said: “Women make up a much larger proportion of the public sector than men. “My concern is that the progress black and ethnic minority workers have made in...