2018 WBG Briefing: Disabled Women and Austerity
Ahead of the 2018 Autumn Budget, we’ve put together a briefing on the impact of austerity on disabled women.
Report
In this report, the Women’s Budget Group considers key trends and challenges associated with the rise in female self-employment.
The rise in self-employment is one of the defining trends in the UK labour market since the financial crisis and economic recession. Self-employment in the UK is at the highest point since records began 40 years ago[1], with the number of self-employed increasing by 650,000 since 2008 to reach 4.5 million.
Self-employed women are the majority of the newly self-employed. The increase in the number of women in the UK becoming self-employed is unprecedented. Historically, women have made up just over a quarter of the self-employed, but since the 2008 downturn 58% of the newly self-employed have been female. The rise in female self-employment is likely to be more than a recessionary ‘blip’.
In this report, the Women’s Budget Group considers key trends and challenges associated with the rise in female self-employment and sets out a series of policy recommendations to address these.
Ahead of the 2018 Autumn Budget, we’ve put together a briefing on the impact of austerity on disabled women.
This briefing is an overview of the gender impact of the Universal Credit system
WBG and EVAW 2018 briefing on Universal Credit and financial abuse.