IPPR: Private sector not taking up the slack

Tony Dolphin, IPPR chief economist, comments on unemployment figures:

“Private sector jobs have only risen by 5,000 but cuts in public sector employment for the same period are 67,000.

"The public sector is the only broad sector of the economy that employs more women than men. If the OBR’s latest forecasts are right, unemployment will increase further next year, and women are likely to bear the brunt in 2012.”