Autumn Statement 2023: Social Security and Gender
A pre-budget briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
Autumn Statement 2023: Taxation and Gender
A pre-budget briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
Analysis
Not your average voter? How women will shape the general election
With a general election to be called any time in the next year, and with women making up over 50% of the electorate, understanding their voting intentions and policy priorities should be imperative to any party wanting to lead the next Government. Yet, a quarter of...
Why taxation of wealth is a feminist issue: A gendered analysis of wealth in Great Britain
A report by the Women’s Budget Group
Gender and Monetary Policy
A briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
Early Education and Childcare in the UK and Beyond: Key Challenges and Lessons
A two-part briefing from the Women’s Budget Group exploring key challenges facing the UK’s early education and childcare alongside lessons from international examples, with a summary of both
The Census and Feminism: How Census 2021 Data Benefits Feminist Analysis and Activism
A joint report by the Women’s Budget Group and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership
A feminist approach to macroeconomics
Briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
The two-child limit to means tested benefits
Briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice
A survey of support services in England and Wales
Cost Of Living Briefing Series
WBG's series of briefings exploring the gendered impact of the cost-of-living crisis across different dimensions including income, inflation, and public services. The Gendered Impact Of The Cost-of-Living Crisis on Public Services (November 2022) Who loses from...
Why Wealth Tax is a Feminist Issue
Read and download the full briefing here The World Inequality Report reveals that wealth inequality in the UK declined throughout the 20th century but began to increase again in the 1980s, with the top 1% of individuals holding 21.3% of total wealth in 2021. The...
WBG Submission to the Financial Resilience APPG June 2023
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the Financial Resilience APPG. Read and dowload the full submission here Summary The UK economy is continuing to experience significant interlinked shocks with important consequences for living standards, businesses and...
WBG Submission to the Low Pay Commission May 2023
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the low-pay commission consultation. Read and dowload the full submission here Summary Ending low hourly pay plays an important part in tackling in work poverty. However, with inflation at a 41 year high of 10.1%, it is...
WBG Submission to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry 2022
The Women’s Budget Group submitted written evidence to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry in November 2022. Read and dowload the full submission here Overall, we state that the Government’s measures in response to Covid exacerbated pre-existing inequalities and created new ones...
Department for Education: Response to Proposed Childcare Ratios Change (Sept 2022)
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the Department of Education (DEF) in September 2022 on the proposed changes to staff:child ratios. Read and dowload the full response here The Women's Budget Group strongly disagrees with the proposed change to the...
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Submission to Net Zero review (Oct 2022)
The Women’s Budget Group are pleased to have submitted a written response to the Net Zero review from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) (Oct 2022) Read and dowload the full response here For more information...
WBG Submission to Labour National Policy Forum Consultation 2023
The Women’s Budget Group are pleased to have submitted the following responses to the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum: Delivering growth The everyday economy Empowered communities Supporting families Labour's progressive trade policy For more information...
Women’s Budget Group full response to the Spring Budget 2023
READ AND DOWNLOAD THE FULL RESPONSE HERE. Summary Chancellor Jeremy Hunt presented a budget to get people “back to work”. With incentives on one hand, and sanctions on the other, we can expect an unfair result: low-income individuals (mostly women) will experience...
WBG finds Government funding for early education and childcare falls short by £5.2bn
The Women’s Budget Group is very pleased to see the Government finally recognising the Early Years sector as essential infrastructure that underpins the rest of the economy. But the expansion of free hours to younger children must be properly funded, otherwise it...
Spring Budget 2023 Pre-Budget Briefings
Ahead of the 2023 Spring Budget, our briefings set out the impact of current policies, with an emphasis on the cost-of-living crisis. They lay out the existing policy and fiscal landscape and recommend measures to protect and improve living standards for economically...
Spring Budget 2023: Gender and Early Education and Childcare
Read and download the full briefing here The early education and childcare system in England is not working for children, parents, workers or the wider economy . The absence of flexible, affordable and quality early education and childcare is a huge barrier to...
Spring Budget 2023: Women and employment
Read and download the full briefing here. While employment levels have started to recover, households in the UK are experiencing their sharpest decline in living standards since records began in the 1940s, and many women returning to the labour market are finding...
Spring Budget 2023: Local government and gender
Read and download the full briefing here Local government provides or funds many services crucial to women and those they care for, including social care, schools, housing, domestic abuse services and transport. Many of these services provide care to children and...
Spring Budget 2023: Social care and gender
Read and download the full briefing here The crisis in social care didn’t start with the pandemic, nor with austerity. Even before the financial crash, underfunding meant increasing numbers of people with unmet needs, others paying catastrophic costs for their care,...
Spring Budget 2023: Social security and gender
Read and download the full briefing here Women are more likely than men to rely on social security for a larger part of their income because they earn less than men on average and are more likely to have disabilities and caring responsibilities, leaving them with less...
Spring Budget 2023: Health inequalities and gender
Read and download the full briefing here After a decade of austerity that saw real-terms funding growth at a record low and in the wake of a global pandemic, the NHS is facing significant pressures that are exacerbating existing health inequalities. The Autumn...
Spring Budget 2023: Taxation and gender
Read and download the full briefing here ‘As women are more likely to rely on and work in public services, they tend to benefit particularly from the public spending that tax can be used to finance.’ As income and wealth disparities rise, our public services are...
WBG Budget Representation 2023
Each year, HM Treasury consult civil society ahead of the Spring Budget. This year, as the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, our submission focuses on investing in public services to restore living standards that have been eroded by inflation and falling wages...
Inquiry on support for childcare and the early years: Submission to the Education Select Committee
The Women's Budget Group submitted written evidence to the Education Select Committee's inquiry on "support for childcare and the early years". You can read our full submission here. Summary of WBG's written evidence: Early education and childcare is not working for...
The Gendered Impact Of The Cost-of-Living Crisis on Public Services
A briefing published by the Women’s Budget Group warns against austerity 2.0 for public services. Access the briefing here. This is the fifth of a series of briefings on the gendered dimension of the cost-of-living crisis. Who loses from benefit uprating changes? A...
Misguided plans for Austerity 2.0 – WBG response to Autumn Statement 2022
Read our full response here. The financial turmoil from the last couple of months has resurrected calls for a renewed wave of austerity. But with the UK economy now officially in recession and households, businesses and public services facing the biggest rise in costs...
