Inequalities in academia – impact on early career researchers
Explore the challenges facing women in 2021 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, including key lessons and policy recommendations.
Consultation Response
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the Treasury Committee Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus in May 2021.
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the Treasury Committee Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus in May 2021.
The Women’s Budget Group believes that equality, wellbeing, and sustainability rather than growth should be the primary aim of Government economic policy. The focus on GDP fails to capture what really matters in our economy and the pursuit of exponential growth is fundamentally at odds with living sustainably in a world with finite resources.
Investment in paid care services improves wellbeing through ensuring that people’s care needs are met; it improves gender equality because it raises the overall employment rate and reduces the gender employment gap, and it is sustainable because care jobs are low-carbon jobs. Investment in care could create 2.7 times as many jobs as the equivalent money invested in construction.
A comprehensive Equality Impact Assessment is needed to ensure both that the Plan for Growth meets its aims, and that the Government fulfils its legal obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Explore the challenges facing women in 2021 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, including key lessons and policy recommendations.
This report focuses on the gendered financial impact of the lockdown efforts on the experiences of parents.
This webinar was part of a series hosted by the UK Women’s Budget Group, exploring the impact of Covid-19 on women in the UK.
The pandemic is continuing to amplify disadvantages experienced by disabled parents and the Government must take decisive action to tackle this.