Glasgow - Academics and campaign groups will gather in Glasgow on Wednesday 8 May to debate the impact of austerity on women workers.

The workshop, entitled ‘Women and the Value of Work: Past and Present’ will look at the issue from a contemporary and historical perspective with accounts dating from throughout history, up to the present day.

Experts will be looking at whether government policy over the last 20-30 years has held back women in the workplace and why women workers seem to be disproportionately affected in times of austerity.

The workshop, hosted by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Gender History, will also be addressing aspects of financial inequality in the current labour market, the ongoing problem of attaching value to women’s work in the domestic sphere, and the history of women’s enterprise over the last 500 years.