Media Round-Up: February 2022

On a shorter work week:

• WBG’s Sara Reis wrote for the Independent on why a shorter working week is good for gender equality: A shorter working week could help close the gender pay gap – here’s how
• Our new report on shorter working week is referenced in Marie Claire: A shorter working week could help to close the gender pay gap
• City A.M covers the story on how a four day work week could close the gender gap, using our report: Four day work week could close gender pay gap, argues women’s rights group
• More coverage on the four-day work week in HR Magazine: Four-day week would help close gender pay gap & HR Grapevine: How a shorter working week could help close the gender pay gap

Other Coverage

• WBG signs letter calling on the government to increase benefits by 6% in Left Foot Forward: Calls for a 6% increase to benefits to protect low-income families amid cost of living crisis
• Our previous reports on austerity cuts is referenced in a piece in The Times: The Ethical Stripper by Stacey Clare review — a remarkable insider account
• Our research is quoted in Nursery World, exploring the Government’s decision to overlook the early years sector in the recent White Paper on ‘Levelling-Up’: Early years forgotten again
• Our work on the childcare crisis in referenced in The New Statesman: Understanding the long-term effects of the pandemic on young children