Submission to the Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry on Funding and Workforce
The UK Women’s Budget Group has made a submission to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry on ‘Social care: funding and workforce.’
Report
This joint report explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how deep-rooted gender inequality is within our society.
The pandemic has entrenched and expanded pre-pandemic inequalities. Our research shows that the uneven impact of school closures, shutdown industries, furlough, and flexible working arrangements are marked between mothers and fathers, those on lower incomes and higher incomes, white and Black, Asian, and ethnic minority groups and those who are not disabled compared to those who are disabled.
While the lives and work of everyone has been affected by Covid-19, the jobs and livelihoods of mothers, including low-income, women of colour and disabled mothers, have been particularly adversely affected.
As restrictions lift, Women’s Budget Group, Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid, Young Women’s Trust, Imkaan, Maternity Action and WEN Wales joined together to look to the future and set out this vision for how the UK could build back fairer for women and girls in all our diversity and come out of the pandemic with a stronger and fairer society for all.
The UK Women’s Budget Group has made a submission to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry on ‘Social care: funding and workforce.’
The letter advocates for fair tax reform to fund vital services, address tax avoidance, and ensure corporations and the wealthy pay their share.
Leading women’s organizations unite, urging PM to address pandemic-exposed gender inequalities. Ten-point plan seeks fairer recovery for all women.
Letter urging the support and adaptation of the Pregnancy & Maternity (Redundancy Protection) Bill that Maria Miller MP is set to introduce on July 8.