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Women's Budget Group

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Our recent report reveals the stark and disproportionate impact of cuts and changes to social security since 2010 on women, particularly those from low-income backgrounds, Black and minority ethnic groups, lone mothers, and disabled women

Who bears the brunt? Intersectional analysis of social security cuts since 2010

An intersectional analysis of the impact of cuts to social security since 2010 projected to 2027/8 based on pre-election Government spending plans.

www.wbg.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Among all 65-75 year olds, median pension wealth for men is £164,700 and for women it is £17,300. Unpaid work that women do impacts their ability to work and save money. We need to create an economy that works for everyone. #16Days #CaringEconomyNow

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

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Women save less, because they earn less, because they do 60% more unpaid work. Telling women to save more without addressing care and other unpaid work doesn't help anyone

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

How can parents go back to work tomorrow when schools and nurseries are closed?

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Good to see people waking up to the shockingly low level of carers allowance. £66.15 per week for what can be a 24/7 job. We need to properly value and support carers - we all need care at points in our lives, and most of us will have to care for others at some point too

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

4 years

Right now I feel completely ashamed that I had no idea carers, performing such a vital role, were being paid £1.89 an hour (less than that if providing care of more than 35 hours a week). The Government needs to completely re-evaluate the shocking value it’s given this vital work

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

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Among 65-75 year olds, average pension wealth for men is £164,700, for women it is £17,300. Huge amounts of unpaid work women do impacts their ability to work & save money. Watch our short clip on why we must create an economy that works for everyone.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

8 months

🚨Our research found that there is no region in England where the average rent is affordable for a woman on median earnings. 👉While the average rent is affordable for men on median earnings in every region except London and the South East.

High rents and benefit cuts push poorer renters out of UK’s cities, report finds

‘Surburbanisation of poverty’ is changing social fabric of cities and widening gap between rich and poor

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

Kwarteng’s announcement puts money in the wallets of wealthy men while failing those hit hardest by the cost of living crisis. WBG analysis shows that: 🧵 #emergencybudget

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Not only is there a shortage of PPE but it is largely designed for male bodies, despite the fact that the majority of health and care workers are women. Thanks to @CCriadoPerez who would not let this go

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

7 months

The paid economy is underpinned by women's unpaid care work. But because it isn’t included in the Treasury’s spreadsheets, they overlook its impact on women's economic situation. Our deputy director @Zubhaque giving evidence today to the @CommonsTreasury in post-budget session.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

Parents need more than thanks. A legally enforceable right to furlough while schools are closed, paid parental leave when they open if families have to isolate, action to make schools safe, and financial support for with additional food, hearing and other costs where needed.

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

3 years

I want to say a huge thank you to the parents, carers and guardians of children. Millions of you have coped with the pressures of home schooling and childcare while also doing your day jobs. And by staying at home you are, quite literally, saving lives.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

Investing in high quality, affordable #EarlyYears education and childcare is in all our interests, it is vital social infrastructure #ShapingUs and shaping our society and economy.

The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood

@Earlychildhood

1 year

Today, we're launching our new #ShapingUs campaign to highlight the importance of early childhood. Watch this video to find out how and why our early childhood shapes the adults we become.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

Govt plans to cut benefits of low earners if they can't increase their working hours will mainly hit women with caring responsibilities and disabled people. These are also among those suffering most from rising prices.

TLDR News UK

@TLDRNewsUK

2 years

#BREAKING The Chancellor is to announce "reforms" to the UK's welfare system in a bid to "get Britain working again." Specifically, 120,000 more benefit claimants will be "asked to take active steps to seek more and better paid work, or face having their benefits reduced."

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

8 months

🚨💰NEW REPORT: Our analysis shows how wealth is unevenly distributed by gender, with the gender wealth gap soaring to 42% by age 65. Together with @TaxJusticeUK & @PatMillsUK , we’re making the feminist case for taxing wealth. A 🧵with key findings:

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Women aged between 26 to 35 do 34.6 hours per week of unpaid work compared with men of the same age who do 17.4 hours. We need more than 'Build! Build! Build!' to address increasing amounts of household & childcare duties women bear the brunt of pre & post Covid.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Today we have launched the final report of the #WBGCommission on a Gender- Equal Economy. Our report #CaringEconomyNow lays out the 8 steps to creating an economy that works for everyone. Read and share our report

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

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"On average, lone mothers stand to gain just £76 a year from the changes to NICs compared to £248 a year for lone fathers and £437 a year for a dual parent household. - Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson with our response to the #AutumnStatement

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

"In my years of reporting on poverty and inequality, one reliable rule of thumb is that the kids are last to go without. First to starve are the mums. They’re the ones who live on hot water and toast to keep the family in meals." @chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty

@chakrabortty

3 years

“Poverty cannot be shelved tidily under different classifications, like books in a library. It jabs its tentacles into all parts of your life, defining everything from how you feel about yourself to whether you live or die in this pandemic.“ My column

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Among all 65-75 year olds, median pension wealth for men (£164,700) is almost 10x the median pension wealth for women (£17,300). We need an economy that works for women. Find out more in paper for #WBGCommission & watch out for final report in September.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

The decision to allow parents who can't work because they are caring for children to be furloughed is very welcome and needs to be widely publicised.

IPPR

@IPPR

4 years

Breaking - The government has updated the rules on coronavirus furlough today... Now parents can be paid for looking after their children if they can't combine this with work. IPPR called for paid parental leave last week.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

56% for single parents have reported struggles to make ends meet during this pandemic. 90% of single parents are women. 61% of those getting into debt to purchase everyday necessities are women. Debt is a feminist issue and solving it must be govt priority this #SpendingReview .

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

Single mothers make up 85% of those affected by benefit cap, new @DWP figures reveal. We warned that tax & benefit changes would hit women hardest. This could easily have been avoided if UK gov carried out proper gender impact assessment of their policies.

Benefit cap: single mothers make up 85% of those affected, data shows

DWP records show 134,044 households had support capped, with single mothers accounting for 114,337

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

The double shift of paid work and unpaid care done by many women has been intensified by Covid and it's taking its toll on women. We need a #caringeconomynow

Revealed: how women have been left psychologically distressed by the Covid-19 pandemic

New research shows women were responsible for the bulk of the childcare and domestic labour this year, often while trying to hold down a job

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

@PaulEmbery How about a society where both partners in a couple can work part time and share care and domestic work?

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Universal Credit covers 85% of childcare costs but it's capped at £175 a week. Average full-time nursery fees are £240 a week. Just to be available for work puts many women in financial hardship. This is even before we include costs like travelling to work.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

'We are all interdependent. It’s part of what it means to be human. We will all give or receive care at some time in our lives. So we need a system in which care is a fundamental part of the economy.'

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

11 months

The 2-child limit is a punitive, cruel policy that's further impoverishing families. Scrapping it would lift 250k children out of poverty & 850k out of deep poverty. As members of @EndChildPoverty we urge @UKLabour to make this a priority #EndTwoChildLimit

Labour urged again to vow to scrap Tories’ two-child benefit limit

Exclusive: Data shows policy, deepening poverty among low-income families, affects about 1.5 million children

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

The government has updated the furlough rules to include employees who cannot work because they have caring responsibilities as a result of Covid 19, including parents who have to look after children. This needs to be widely publicised

Women's Budget Group

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

If we want to #BreakTheBias this #IWD2022 then we'll need to talk about care... 👉Women carry out 60% more *unpaid work* than men in the form of care and domestic labour. This means they earn less, own less and are more likely to live in poverty. 🧵1/

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

7 months

As @Siobhain_Mc highlighted, we found that, on average, lone mothers will gain £76/yr from the changes to NICs compared to £248/yr for lone fathers and £437/yr for dual parent households. So yes, distributional analysis would probably be beneficial for @hmtreasury to carry out.

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@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

"The high cost of childcare is a key reason women are leaving their jobs...Start thinking of childcare as infrastructure and invest in it accordingly." Brilliant to hear from @Justine_Roberts on @BBCr4today

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Women carry out 60% more unpaid work than men and earn 43% less. #Covid19 has shown that the economy is not working. But for women, the economy has never really worked. See how unpaid care is at the heart of gender inequalities

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

@CCriadoPerez How about building a society where two earner families can both work part time and share care and domestic work. And one which realises not everyone is in a two earner family

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

THREAD: Women’s Budget Group responds to the #Budget2020 Huge borrowing and spending is welcome response to low growth but doesn't mark the end of austerity for social care, childcare or local gov where women, especially BAME and disabled women, have been hardest hit.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

It is women, especially low-paid, BAME & migrant women currently putting their lives on line to deliver vital care to British public having previously been told they are ‘low-skilled’ . #Covid19 @Autonomy_UK

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

'Poverty has a female face. Women are more likely than men to be poor. Women are more likely to act as the ‘shock absorbers of poverty’ going without food, clothes or warmth in order to meet the needs of other family members when money is tight.' …

A female face - Fabian Society

Our social security system is not working. A succession of cuts and changes over the last eight years have left a fifth of the population (more than 14 million people) living in poverty. More than...

fabians.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Just because work is low paid, doesn't mean it is low skilled. We need to value care for the skilled work it is, and invest in it properly

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

The Chancellor spent more time talking about alcohol duty than care, housing, climate change or VAWG, all of which are more important to women than a few pence on a bottle of prosecco.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

Give money to parents direct rather than allow private companies to charge £30 for food that costs just over £5 in a supermarket. With kids at school parents are facing a range of extra costs (heating, increased data if no WiFi). Increase child benefit

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Boris Johnson’s answer to economic crisis caused by pandemic is to ‘build, build, build’. But our analysis shows our focus needs to be on ‘care, care, care’. Investment in care would also be good for the economy #borisjohnsonspeech

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

6 years

"We must get away from this paternalistic view that 'men pay tax to support women', when in fact the work that women do supports men everyday - and this work continues to be under-acknowledged and undervalued" @SophieRunning @WEP_UK @taxinparliament #TaxEquality

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

DWP figures confirm that 45% of single parent families are living in poverty. 90% of these families are led by women. This alone shows that Universal Credit is not ‘gender neutral.’ #GE2019 #WBGCommission

No, Universal Credit is not ‘gender neutral’

Any reform of the social security system should be subject to a meaningful equality impact assessment.

www.wbg.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

11 months

No type of economic growth could happen without unpaid care work. Yet it continues to be ignored in mainstream economic analysis & policies. As the #CostOfLivingCrisis is disproportionately impacting women, now more than ever, we need a feminist approach to macroeconomics🧵

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Women academics with small children submitting fewer papers, while male colleagues have more time to write. Depressing but not surprising thread

Caroline Kitchener

@CAKitchener

4 years

Six weeks into widespread self-quarantine, editors of academic journals have started noticing a trend: Women — who (ofc) shoulder more family responsibility — seem to be submitting fewer papers than usual. There is some evidence that men are submitting *more.* (a thread)

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@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

Since women are more likely to be poor, more likely to manage household budgets and more likely to need and provide care (paid and unpaid) it wouldn't have been hard for govt to do impact assessment on #Yellowhammer

Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

'low income groups will be disproportionately affected by any price rises in food and fuel' #operationyellowhammer predictes increases in electricity prices, shortage of medicine and fresh food and a significant impact on adult social care.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

77% of workers who earn too little to pay income tax, so will gain nothing from the nearly £5.3bn a year spent cutting the basic rate, are women. ~ 80% of those who benefit from the nearly £2.4bn a year spent cutting the 45% tax rate will be men.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Investment in care is not only critical for maternal employment, it would create 2.7 times as many jobs as the same investment in construction

PregnantThenScrewed

@PregnantScrewed

4 years

Our research is headline news in the @guardian today. We are on the brink of a disaster for maternal employment. If the Government doesn’t act now, we will set women’s equality back decades. Childcare is infrastructure & it needs investment - are you listening @RishiSunak ?

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@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

This is a terrible decision. Refusal to publish equality impact assessment of the Budget makes it look like the Treasury has something to hide.

Disability News Service

@johnpringdns

1 year

Watchdog gives Treasury go-ahead to keep equality impact of budget secret

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Really powerful thread about the assumptions and invisibility of unpaid work

Vicky Smallman

@vickyatclc

4 years

There’s an unwritten assumption that women will just make themselves available when stuff needs to get done. Whether it’s remembering family members’ birthdays, tracking the family schedule, noticing when we’re running low on milk or when new shoes are needed. We are there.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

The gendered division of unpaid care is at the heart of women's economic inequality. Women do 60% more unpaid care than men, leaving less time for paid work and other activities. Leave policies that encourage the sharing of care are critical to tackle this

Want gender equality? Then fight for fathers’ rights to shared parental leave | Alexandra Topping

The UK should take a leaf out of Finland’s book and give men non-transferable time off to care for their children, says Alexandra Topping, a Guardian news reporter

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Trade has significantly different impacts on women and men, because of the sectors they work in and the division of unpaid work. An 'expert in trade' needs to understand those differences

Kay Burley

@KayBurley

4 years

“Tony Abbott is a homophobe and a misogynist” Health Sec @MattHancock : “He’s also an expert on trade” #KayBurley JM

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

84% of the over 700,000 care workers at risk of #COVID19 are women. Most are low paid. @Autonomy_UK

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

'Our report ‘The Female Face of Poverty’ explores how caring responsibilities and gender norms play a role in women’s lower earnings from paid employment, and how an insufficient welfare safety net and a decade of austerity have left many women poorer.'

DWP data reveals: women and children continue to be worst affected by poverty

According to the DWP figures, 100,000 more children are now living in poverty than in 2016/17, while women are more likely to live in poverty than men

www.wbg.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

If benefits don't rise in line with inflation, the poorest people in the UK will see a real terms cut in their incomes. Low earners and disabled people will pay the price for tax cuts for the wealthiest

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

“I am not free while any woman is unfree even when her shackles look very different from my own” Audre Lorde, Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism 1981 We are part of a sector that has work to do to be genuinely anti-racist. We must reflect&commit to change, today&everyday

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

11 months

Women make up the majority of the public sector workforce who have suffered over a decade of decline in their real wages. This is therefore a continued refusal on by the Government to value women's work and address an underlying cause UK's #GenderPayGap

No extra money for public sector pay rises, Jeremy Hunt tells ministers

Chancellor thought to have ruled out providing extra cash if PM decides to accept pay review bodies’ recommendations

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

Parents can't afford fees, childcare staff can't afford to live, providers can't afford to stay open and children are missing out on vital education. Plans to relax ratios will do nothing to tackle the scale of the childcare emergency. Our response 👇🏿

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

Most single parents are women, who have lower incomes & less savings than men because of their caring responsibilities. The Government must look again at taxing wealth to fund social infrastructure & urgently boost funding for early education & childcare.

Three in 10 single parents ‘have skipped meals due to rising prices’

Which? said it is crucial everyone is able to access affordable, healthy food.

www.standard.co.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

"Women are the shock absorbers of poverty, putting further financial pressures on this group at this time – during the cost of living crisis – is unconscionable" - WBG Director Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson quoted on these misguided changes to #UniversalCredit .

Hunt’s jobs drive will push mothers on benefits to work 30-hour week

Exclusive: Single mothers of three-year-olds will be disproportionately hit by ‘unconscionable’ policy, say charities and academics

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

"It’s dreadful that it has to take a global pandemic for us to look around and realise that the economy is not simply operating at the behest of market forces but it is impacted by all of us every day. It is care and it is community." #Covid19 #Care

'Key Workers' Are The Unrecognised Backbone Of Our Economy. They Deserve More

The idea that these important workers, most of whom are women, are ‘low-skilled’ looks pretty absurd during the coronavirus, writes Jenna Norman.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Out of 3.2 million workers employed in the highest-risk roles, about 2.5 million are women - new findings by @Autonomy_UK

Low-paid women in UK at ‘high risk of coronavirus exposure’

Study shows women are more likely to be employed in roles such as social care, nursing and pharmacy

www.theguardian.com

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@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

Women on average earn less per hour than men, have lower incomes than men, and have less wealth and lower savings than men, largely driven by their provision of unpaid and low paid care, which translates into lower pensions and higher poverty in older age.

Women’s private pensions worth 35% less than men’s in Great Britain

Survey is first major government study into what has been termed ‘the great gender pension chasm’

www.theguardian.com

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

So far, women in the UK have been largely invisible from the #CoronavirusUK debate and excluded from decision-making. Read our joint call for women to be seen and heard. @fawcettsociety @CCriadoPerez @TIMESUPUK @WEP_UK @4refugeewomen @YWTrust

Coronavirus: joint call for women's visibility in UK response

Read our joint call for women and girls to be visible, heard and have their needs met during the UK's Coronavirus crisis response.

www.fawcettsociety.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

6 years

Funding for women’s organisation does not currently reflect the social value they generate nor the money they save the state. Our new report - Life-Saving & Life-Changing: Funding for the women's sector - launches today!

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@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

Our new analysis shows that a further 112,000 lone parents – mostly women - risk being pushed into poverty by rumoured proposals to increase benefits in line with average wages instead of inflation. This would leave those hardest hit by the #CostOfLivingCrisis even worse off.🧵

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Lack of women's voices in govt response has exacerbated unequal burden virus places on women's shoulders. Often estimated that if 3rd of your governing body is female, women's issues will get on agenda. That's not happening in current govt. @sianushka

Covid-19: Where are the women?

Women are disproportionately impacted by the economic and diagnosis rate of coronavirus – and yet gender remains largely absent from the government response.

www.politics.co.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

@jaCattell Listen to front line women's organisations like @whywomen - prepare for second wave of debt, repossessions, demand for women's refuge spaces etc. We are working on this now. This is our report on current issues

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@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

(1/4) The government’s U-turn on the 45% tax rate is very welcome - but it only gets rid of the most extreme measure on this Inequality Budget. The 10% wealthiest still gain 100x more in tax cuts than the poorest (who gain just over £1+/month).

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@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

. @Alston_UNSR 'What is most puzzling to me is why the govt is so defensive...If the govt is being honest, it should “own” consequences...poverty is rising, inequality has increased, economic & social insecurity are rampant, and children are going hungry'

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

#Covid19 has shown that the economy is not working. But for women, the economy has never really worked. Women carry out 60% more unpaid work than men and earn 43% less. See how unpaid care is at the heart of gender inequalities #WBGCommission

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

Looking for a new years resolution? Learning about feminist economics should be on your list! Get an alternative perspective on the economy & society. Because our economy is more than just men, machines & money. Have a look at our resources:

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@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

New polling from @IPPR shows public support for increased spending on social care paid from taxation. Very high support for a pay rise for care workers

Care after Coronavirus: An emerging consensus | IPPR

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

www.ippr.org

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@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

'Poverty has a female face. Women amore likely than men to be poor. Women are more likely to act as the ‘shock absorbers of poverty’ going without food, clothes or warmth in order to meet the needs of other family members when money is tight.' #EndPoverty

A female face - Fabian Society

Our social security system is not working. A succession of cuts and changes over the last eight years have left a fifth of the population (more than 14 million people) living in poverty. More than...

fabians.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

It can’t be right that many of those at the sharp end, providing services under pressure and at high risk of getting sick themselves, are earning so little. Many will not even qualify for sick pay. This should be a wake-up call – we need action now and long term change

Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Out of 3.2 million workers employed in the highest-risk roles, about 2.5 million are women - new findings by @Autonomy_UK

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

This generation of women are in worse danger than their male peers of ending up in pensioner poverty. As savers reach their 40s, women have an average of £23,000 in savings and investments but men have more than £50,000. Age UK C…

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

'Our report ‘The Female Face of Poverty’ explores how caring responsibilities and gender norms play a role in women’s lower earnings from paid employment, and how an insufficient welfare safety net and a decade of austerity have left many women poorer.' …

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

A really interesting read from @thefabians Unpaid work, particularly care work, is at the heart of women’s economic inequality with women carrying out 60% more unpaid work than men. It is critical to the economy, and yet it's largely ignored in traditional economic models.

The Fabian Society

@thefabians

1 year

The poorest in our society are not just at the bottom of the pile financially. They are also short of another valuable commodity - time ⌛️ Fabian senior researcher @sasjkia explains

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

There are no 'efficiency savings' to make. Cuts to public services increase inequalities making the poorest poorer, with Black & minority ethnic women, disabled women and single parents hit hardest.

Intersecting Inequalities

A new report from WBG and the Runnymede Trust looks at the impact of austerity on BME women

www.wbg.org.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

There has been a net loss of over 2000 childcare providers since the start of this year. The sector is in crisis. Any plan to build back better from Covid has to address childcare, or it will fail mothers who are more likely to reduce hours because of care

Joiners and leavers in the childcare sector

Management information aggregating monthly joiners and leavers on our registers. A time-series of joiners and leavers includes data since April 2020.

www.gov.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

#GenderPensionGap Among all 65-75 year olds, median pension wealth for men is £164,700 for women it is £17,300. Unpaid work that women do impacts their ability to work/ save money. We need an economy that works for everyone. #IWD2021 #CaringEconomyNow

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

Parents need the right to be furloughed when schools are closed. And self employed parents need fnqncial support. We know that last school closures hit mothers harder than fathers.

Furlough mums and dads if school is shut, says TUC - BBC News

Trades unions urge bosses to support parents trying to balance work and childcare.

www.bbc.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Earnings of single parents fell by more than double the amount experienced by households with children & more than 1 adult. "It is not uncommon for single parents to have to choose between feeding themselves or their children – it really is that stark.”

BAME and single-parent families worst hit financially by Covid-19

Survey highlights discrepancies in earnings compared with white two-parent households

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

#Covid19 has shown that the economy is not working. But for women, the economy has never really worked. Women carry out 60% more unpaid work than men and earn 43% less. See how unpaid care is at the heart of gender inequalities #WBGCommission

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

Prof Hilary Land, member of our Policy Advisory Group, in yesterday's @CommonsWorkPen : "If we didn't have these over 5 million unpaid carers, we would have to increase the paid social care force fourfold." We know those most likely to provide unpaid care are women aged 45 – 69.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

11 months

⚖️NEW REPORT: Survey data reveals alarming gender gaps in accessing civil legal justice & highlights the pressing needs, barriers and adverse impact faced by women due to reduced funding for the civil justice system. Full report🔗 🧵with key findings:

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

Today, the Government made a choice to push people into poverty. This isn't simply a crisis. It is a scandal that has been 12 years in the making, the result of successive political choices that everyone will feel - particularly women. Our response:

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Women are on the frontline of #Covid19 crisis. 77% of healthcare workers are women, & 83% of social care workforce are women. Read our latest briefing on how the health and economic crises caused by #Covid19 will be acute for different groups of women.

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

various WBG staff and members have been trawling through the #Budget2021 documents looking for an equality impact assessment to no avail. The Treasury has a legal obligation to have 'due regard' to equality, but yet again has failed to provide any evidence it has done so cont/

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

We can't expect women in high-risk jobs to continue to put their lives on line without liveable pay, permanent contracts & adequate sick pay. We can't demand migrant nurses pay for NHS twice but cannot pay rent. We can do things differently. And we must.

Gender and Covid-19: the immediate impact the crisis is having on women

The impact of the ongoing pandemic is having different effects on men and women, yet the government has failed to take these differences on board when responding to the situation. Jenna Norman sets…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

Women are disproportionately likely to be responsible for managing household budgets & to cut back on essentials for themselves to provide for their family. Record-high food prices add additional pressure on them as they are forced to 'hunt for bargains'.

UK supermarket inflation hits record high, making shoppers hunt for bargains

Prices rise fastest for eggs, milk and cheese amid shortages of salad and other items

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

11 months

Disappointing to see @Keir_Starmer say that @UKLabour would keep the two-child benefit limit. The policy has not only further impoverished families, it also makes no economic sense. A 🧵on why it's not effective & should be abolished:

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

If the Gov is serious about relaunching the economy, creating jobs and growth, they should investment in care as well as construction our new data finds today:

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

2 years

This is also a story of women's poverty, the majority of care workers are women, and a higher proportion of Black and minority ethnic women than other sectors. In a time of crisis we need imagination on the scale seen after the second world war, not cuts.

One in four children of UK care workers living in poverty, TUC finds

Figure represents 220,000 children, with union adding many families of nurses and public transport workers also in crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

1 year

A one-off payment is not the answer to the staffing crisis in the childcare sector. We need a long-term workforce strategy & higher wages. @fairnessfdn 's polling shows there's consensus among the public: 8 in 10 Britons believe that salaries are too low.

Jeremy Hunt to announce £500 sign-on bonus for childcare workers

Chancellor to unveil financial incentive among other measures in Budget as part of his back-to-work drive

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

There are millions of people, mainly women, providing unpaid care. Many living in poverty, exhausted and desperate for support. It is deeply insulting to say they should do more.

Tory party conference: Sajid Javid urges families to care more for elderly

People need to take responsibility for looking after their elderly relatives and stop looking to the state to provide, the health secretary has said.Sajid Javid

www.thetimes.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Women carry out 60% more unpaid work than men and earn 43% less. #Covid19 has shown that the economy is not working. But for women, the economy has never really worked. See how unpaid care is at the heart of gender inequalities

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

It can't be right that so many on frontline dealing with #Covid19 crisis are low-paid. Many are on zero hours contracts and not entitled to sick pay. The Govt must learn lessons from this @Autonomy_UK

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

5 years

Children are often poor because their mother's are poor. #Dispatches shows that unpaid care, #UniversalCredit and violence mean that poverty is still disproportionately effecting women. Find out more:

Child Poverty Is Not Inevitable. Here’s How We Make It A Thing Of The Past

Growing Up Poor revealed a desperate reality but there is a way to put an end to deprivation, writes Jenna Norman, public affairs officer at the Women’s Budget Group.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

4 years

Good to see women's life expectancy, gendered impact of austerity, two child limit, domestic abuse and gender pay gap discussed at #PMQs . These are serious issues that need attention. Public services need reinvestment and redesign so that they do not discriminate against women

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

Watch our video about the different groups of women that have been impacted by #COVID19 & lessons to learn in 2021 @womensbudgetgrp . And below is our #thread that highlights the main points made in the video

Lessons Learned: Where Women Stand at the Start of 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the situation for many women in terms of health, employment and unpaid work, resulting in increased levels of poverty, debt and…

vimeo.com

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Women's Budget Group

@WomensBudgetGrp

3 years

#Covid19 has shown that the economy is not working but for women the economy has never really worked. Women do 60% more unpaid work than men & earn 43% less. We need to create an economy that works for everyone. Find out more:

Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy | Women's Budget Group

Explore the pioneering work of the Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy, a project by the UK Women’s Budget Group. Discover alternative economic policies fostering gender equality in the UK. Access...

www.wbg.org.uk

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