New research shows Universal Credit failing the ‘just about managing’
New research shows Universal Credit failing the ‘just about managing’: with women and BME households hardest hit.
Report
In this report, the Women’s Budget Group considers key trends and challenges associated with the rise in female self-employment.
The rise in self-employment is one of the defining trends in the UK labour market since the financial crisis and economic recession. Self-employment in the UK is at the highest point since records began 40 years ago[1], with the number of self-employed increasing by 650,000 since 2008 to reach 4.5 million.
Self-employed women are the majority of the newly self-employed. The increase in the number of women in the UK becoming self-employed is unprecedented. Historically, women have made up just over a quarter of the self-employed, but since the 2008 downturn 58% of the newly self-employed have been female. The rise in female self-employment is likely to be more than a recessionary ‘blip’.
In this report, the Women’s Budget Group considers key trends and challenges associated with the rise in female self-employment and sets out a series of policy recommendations to address these.
New research shows Universal Credit failing the ‘just about managing’: with women and BME households hardest hit.
A pre-budget briefing exploring recent changes to the labour market by gender (February 2020)
Less work is good for equality as well as the environment, according to a new report by the Women’s Budget Group.