Bridging the Gender Data Gap
Reflections from Ilaria Esposito who attended WBG’s Census Day Event
Women’s Budget Groups in Glasgow
Reflections of each of the Women’s Budget Groups, as well as an overview of what was highlighted in our cross-nation state of play discussions.
News
Why a Green New Deal Must be Feminist
Mar 26, 2021 | Blog
Prior to COVID-19 the plans of a Green New Deal (GND) included a set of policy plans, which at its most ambitious, envisioned a completely decarbonised economy. Whilst this is still at the forefront of the GND plans, moving forward there has been a strong focus to...
Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (Edited by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah) – Book Review
Mar 25, 2021 | Blog
Publisher: Verso Books (2020) Review by Anabel Butler In this era of digital feminist activism, where terms like ‘intersectionality’ are commonly heard but divorced from their radical origins, Revolutionary Feminisms helps us to situate ourselves within a collective...
ONS Labour Market Statistics (March 2021)
Mar 24, 2021 | Blog
We analyse the latest ONS data on the changes to the labour market for the latest three months to February 2021 from a gender perspective. Read our short note on what we found for the Labour Market data for March 2021. Key figures: The ONS has released new data on...
Prime Minister promised to ‘fix adult social care’ but we are still waiting…
Mar 18, 2021 | Blog
Eighteen months ago, the Prime Minister promised to ‘fix adult social care’. We are still waiting. Social care is an integral part of our social infrastructure. The Budget is silent on both. The pandemic continues to show that a decade of underfunding and treating...
Is Shared Parental Leave really the great equaliser?
Mar 16, 2021 | Blog
A year on from the first lockdown and one thing is clear – women have carried the heaviest burden of unpaid work while schools and nurseries were closed. During the last year, while fathers’ unpaid workload increased the gap between paid and unpaid work remained...
Automating care: the devaluation of care work for the elderly in the name of gender equality
Feb 25, 2021 | Blog
Blog piece by Dr Ella Fegitz Over the past 20 years, the issue of an ageing society has come to the fore in many Western countries as a major concern. The investment in new technologies to tackle the needs of an ageing population has been one of the responses to this...
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care (Madeleine Bunting)- A Review
Feb 25, 2021 | Blog
Publisher: Granta Publicatons (2020) Review by Helena Fraser Rowe In ‘Labours of Love’, Madeleine Bunting amplifies the voices of those who bear the brunt of the UK’s chronic health and social care crisis. Bunting situates the contemporary care deficit as both the...
Tax Justice & Gender Justice
The Women's Budget Group invite you to our series of webinars addressing the most pressing issues facing women across the UK today. Tax is a key tool that the government has to address this inequality. However, at the moment wealth is very lightly taxed in the UK....
Why all economists should be feminist economists
Feb 12, 2021 | Blog
UK Women's Budget Group Management Committee member Susan Himmelweit authors this chapter in 'Rethinking Economics:An Introduction to Pluralist Economics' In this chapter, the key features of feminist economics are expertly laid out, explaining why feminist economics...
Women are better investors than men
Feb 10, 2021 | Blog
Blog piece by Alice Wilson This feels controversial and inflammatory to write though it should not. That women have, on aggregate, more profitable investment strategies than men is an evidence backed statement based on empirical evidence. It does not feel...
ONS Labour Market Statistics (January 2021)
Jan 29, 2021 | Blog
We're releasing our analysis of ONS latest labour market figures with an important word of caution: Two detailed reviews were released in January 2021 highlighting the potential unreliability of ONS official unemployment figures during the pandemic The Alliance for...
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson- A Review
Jan 28, 2021 | Blog
Publisher: Vintage, 2019 Review by Heather Griffiths This book has been looking at me from the shelf for some time now and I picked it up tentatively as I do with any book I am reviewing. What if it is really boring or I hate it? Although I am not sure if scholars can...