Are Other Nations Outpacing the UK in Childcare?
A blog by Ebyan Abdirahman, Research and Policy Officer at the Women’s Budget Group
Bridging the Gender Data Gap
Reflections from Ilaria Esposito who attended WBG’s Census Day Event
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Building Better Social Care
Join us for a joint event hosted by NEF, Women's Budget Group and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on how we build better social care. Tuesday 16th November 10:00-12:00 It is widely recognised that social care is in crisis. After the public outcry over the spread of Covid-19...
Why Women Are Poorer Than Men by Annabelle Williams – Book Review
Oct 29, 2021 | Blog
Review by Bori Toth Economic inequalities between men and women have persistently been observed over the last decades, although public debate often doesn’t go further than discussing the pay gap. Even this narrow definition of gender inequality depicts a gloomy...
Gender Pay Gap in the UK: 2021
Oct 26, 2021 | Blog
The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) measures of employee earnings, using data from the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (ASHE) were published today, including the latest figures on the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in the UK. We echo the warnings of the ONS that...
Tax wealth and profit income to fund social care and healthcare
Oct 20, 2021 | Blog
Written by Cem Oyvat* and Özlem Onaran** The government’s new tax package to generate additional funding for health and social care includes 1.25%-point increase in the national insurance rates of employees, employers and self-employed. Tax on dividends will also rise...
Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy – Book Review
Sep 30, 2021 | Blog
Publisher: Pluto Press (2019) Review by Sophie, WBG ECN member Starting this book, I felt disorientated, as if I had wandered into an on-going conversation. It was a genuine struggle to pick up a definition of Social Reproduction Theory or the central purpose of the...
Why doesn’t English Devolution deliver for Women? One Day it might…..
Sep 28, 2021 | Blog
Written by: Dr. Fiona Armstrong Gibbs
As working patterns change is it time to rethink public transport priorities?
Sep 21, 2021 | Blog
This blog is by Anna Johnston, Research and Policy Officer at the Women’s Budget Group.
The climate emergency is here: We must make our housing policy greener too
Sep 21, 2021 | Blog
Greenhouse gas emissions for housing contribute 22 per cent of the UK’s carbon footprint. It’s time our housing policy recognised this, says Anna Johnston from the Women’s Budget Group.
An Invisible and Vulnerable Sector: Early Years Childcare and Covid
Sep 16, 2021 | Blog
The Vulnerability of provision without government support The early years sector has long reported concerns about its financial viability (NDNA 2020, EYA 2020). Prior to Covid-19 providers of early education and care were already grossly under resourced. The...
Looking for a feminist perspective in the economics curriculum
Sep 15, 2021 | Blog
By Ellie Martin (BSc Business, Finance And Economics at University of East Anglia) A memory that has and will always stand out from attending my first lecture at the UEA is being congratulated by the Head of Economics for joining a degree that is so heavily male...
End of the Ideal Worker?
Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Written by Caroline Waterworth
Rethinking Housing Supply and Design
Aug 11, 2021 | Analysis, Blog, Reports, UK Policy Briefings
UK Feminist Green New Deal Policy Papers Read the full policy paper here. Housing is fundamental to life, security and wellbeing as well as tackling climate change and working towards a zero-carbon future. It also remains a key site of gender and intersectional...