Women in the home ‘are treated unfairly’

FULL-TIME home workers are struggling to make ends meet because of the shift in priority towards working parents, a lobby group has claimed.

Mother of seven, Caitríona Lynch, chairwoman of Women in the Home (WITH), said people like her had become victims of social change.

“We feel abandoned by the women’s movement and totally unrecognised and unrepresented at Government and official level,” she said yesterday.