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Osborne’s recovery is an illusion, women still feel the pinch
Osborne's Autumn Financial Statement neglects women's struggles, lacks social service investment, exacerbates income inequality.
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Media Round-Up: March 2022
Media Round-Up for March 2022
Latest:
- Our briefing on the gender pay gap and housing is referenced in the Evening Standard: International Women’s Day: buying and renting in London are both less affordable for women than men
- Grazia mentions our research on the cost of free universal preschool childcare: ‘We Will Never Have Gender Equality While Mothers Cannot Afford To Work’
- Morning Star references our research on the gender pay gap: The anti-racist fight for refugees is key to women’s liberation today
- Dr Sara Reis is quoted in The Times on the gender housing gap: International Women’s Day: the gender housing gap in numbers
- More on the gender housing gap from the i where Dr Sara Reis is quoted: Women face growing gender housing gap as rents, house prices and wage inequality spiral
- Sara Reis comments in Glamour on the cost of living crisis: ‘I feel powerless’: How the cost of living crisis will disproportionately impact single women
- Mary-Ann Stephenson comments in the Guardian on childcare costs: ‘We’re heading for a crisis’: UK parents face rising fees as nursery costs soar
- Our shorter working week report is referenced in Jacobin: A Four-Day Workweek Will Benefit Everyone, But Especially Women
Research on childcare referenced in
- London News Today: Childcare is more of a burden on the family than rent or mortgages
- Huffington Post: Childcare Is Costing Families More Than Their Rent Or Mortgage
- West Wales Chronicle: “ONE IN FOUR FAMILIES ARE HAVING TO SKIP MEALS OR FORGO HEATING AND FUEL TO AFFORD CHILDCARE.”
- Yorkshire Times: One In Four Families Skip Meals Or Forgo Heating And Fuel To Afford Childcare
- Open Access Government: Childcare costs leave 1.7 million UK women unable to work
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