Local Government, Gender and Covid-19
This briefing explores gendered impacts of cuts to local authority funding, urging reinvestment to protect women, especially BAME and disabled women.
Consultation Response
The UKWBG made a submission to the Women and Equalities Select Committee inquiry into the unequal impact of Coronavirus: the gendered economic impact.
In July 2020, the Committee reopened the inquiry to focus on the specific impacts of those with different and intersecting protected characteristics. WBG made the following additional submissions based on polling conducted with Survation and The Fawcett Society, LSE and QMU in April 2020:
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This briefing explores gendered impacts of cuts to local authority funding, urging reinvestment to protect women, especially BAME and disabled women.
The WBG calls for the Government to #MakeWomenVisible by creating strong structures to engage with the women's and wider equalities sector.
'At the end of this immediate emergency we cannot return to business as usual.'
Data shows that 6 in 10 disabled women feared missing out on medicines and struggled to access food during lockdowns.