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Women can break chains of poverty – O’Grady
FEMALE workers are being trapped by in-work poverty, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said yesterday.
She was delivering the inaugural Mary Macarthur lecture in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands.
Ms Macarthur was a trade union activist and Suffragette who lived from 1880 to 1921.
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