Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do? | Zoe Williams

It is hard to find a suitable response to what is no longer simply austerity but the willed destruction of social generosity

It was a budget that coincided with International Women's Day. The chancellor marked the happy event by sprinkling generosity on the hardworking wives and mothers who, in their resilience to violence and discrimination, make up the wellspring of this nation's doughty good cheer. So 20m, over three years, to domestic violence charities; a 5m fund to help women back into work after having children; another 5m to the ones who haven't necessarily done anything reproductively useful, and merely want to celebrate next year's centenary of female suffrage.

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We could say austerity kills. But this isn't even austerity. No books are being balanced as a result of these actions

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