Policy papers: Public Services
The following papers were commissioned by the Women’s Budget Group to inform the Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy. As inputs to the Commission, they have been written by independent authors and should not be taken to represent the views of the Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy or the Women’s Budget Group.
Click on the links below to view the policy papers commissioned under the Public Services strand:
Public Services in a Gender-Equal Economy: Overview Paper
Professor Hilary Land
Early childhood education and care policies
Dr Jerome De Henau
Public Procurement and Gender Equality
Dr Katharina Sarter
Transport in a Gender Equal Economy
Rebecca Gill
A care-led recovery from coronavirus
Dr Jerome De Henau and
Prof. Susan Himmelweit
Education, gender equity and social justice
Sara Bragg (UCL), Tiffany Page (UCL), Vanita Sundaram (University of York)
Education and gender equality
Marion Sharples
Housing and gender equality
Dr Sara Reis
Social Care and Gender Equality
Marion Sharples
What would a gender-equal health service look like? How might we move towards it?
Maureen Mackintosh, Pam Smith, Bridget Towers
The privatisation and financialisation of social care
Kate Bayliss and Jasmine Gideon