
An accountancy firm have revealed the results of a recent study and it looks as if IVAs (Individual Voluntary Arrangements) among women are very much on the rise in the UK. More and more women are being driven to seek debt solutions such as IVAs to deal with escalating levels of financial insolvency. The stats suggest that this is a new development and is likely to be linked to the current economic recession. The level of women in need of IVAs has risen from somewhere around 32% in 2002 to a gobsmacking 48% in 2011, accounting for almost half of all IVAs and debts in the UK.
Experts who specialise in debt solutions and IVAs have suggested that this is thanks to our consumer culture and exposure to rampant materialism in media, though this is a rather sexist assumption to make. Other explanations sound much more plausible, though much more worrying.