ONS Labour Market Statistics (March 2021)
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.
Consultation Response
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the Treasury Committee Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus in May 2021.
The Women’s Budget Group submitted a response to the Treasury Committee Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus in May 2021.
The Women’s Budget Group believes that equality, wellbeing, and sustainability rather than growth should be the primary aim of Government economic policy. The focus on GDP fails to capture what really matters in our economy and the pursuit of exponential growth is fundamentally at odds with living sustainably in a world with finite resources.
Investment in paid care services improves wellbeing through ensuring that people’s care needs are met; it improves gender equality because it raises the overall employment rate and reduces the gender employment gap, and it is sustainable because care jobs are low-carbon jobs. Investment in care could create 2.7 times as many jobs as the equivalent money invested in construction.
A comprehensive Equality Impact Assessment is needed to ensure both that the Plan for Growth meets its aims, and that the Government fulfils its legal obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty.
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.
WBG analysed the data released by the Office for National Statistics on parenting in lockdown during Coronavirus & the effects on work-life balance.
There are over 3 million people in jobs at high risk of exposure to Covid 19 in the UK – 77% of them are women.
This report examines how COVID-19 is impacting women and men’s working lives in the UK.