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Covid-19 & Women: your weekly update

Week 15: July 13-17 2020

Dear Subscribers,

We hope you are safe and well. This is our fourteenth weekly newsletter, bringing you the latest on gender, the economy and Covid-19. If you like what we are bringing you, forward this email to a friend or two so they can sign up here.

We want to express our continued support and solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement demanding change both here at home and across the world. We are part of a sector that has work to do to be genuinely anti-racist. We must reflect & commit to change, today & everyday.

Keep reading for more news on the gendered and economic impacts of the pandemic in the UK and beyond. Scroll down to the bottom to catch upcoming events on gender, the economy and Covid-19.

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The Women's Budget Group on Covid-19

Latest ONS data on employment (March-May 2020)
We have analysed the data released by the Office for National Statistics and HMRC for March to May which includes the first Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme published sex- and age-disaggregated figures

Briefings on Covid-19
Find everything the Women's Budget Group has done on Covid-19 here. This includes our reports on the impact that Covid-19 has on Social Security and Social Care, as well as joint letters, policy responses, and more.

Find it all here

Covid-19: the latest

Behind the numbers: how the Coronavirus affected women in Israel
Report published by the Adva Center

Addressing the economic fallout of COVID-19: Pathways and policy options for a gender-responsive recovery
Policy brief from UN Women

Gendered Effects of Covid-19 in the Arab Region: Snapshot from Palestine
Report published by Global Policy Review

COVID-19 and the care economy: Immediate action and structural transformation for a gender-responsive recovery
Policy brief from UN Women

Why, in almost all countries, was residential care for older people so badly affected by COVID-19?
Paper published by European Social Observatory

UK’s response to pandemic ‘has been sexist’ and hit female-led industries hardest
Article in the Metro

MP’s bid to protect women from unfair redundancy gets over first hurdle
Article in Personnel Today

Seven in 10 Tory voters say Boris Johnson should give care workers a pay rise
Article in the Mirror

Events for isolation
Re-centering the Global South in the response to the pandemic Lessons from Vietnam, Kerala (India), Argentina, and Cuba
22 July | 3:30pm (BST)
D-Econ invite you to this webinar. For more information see here.

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The Women’s Budget Group scrutinises government policy from a gender perspective. We are a network of leading feminist economists, researchers, policy experts and campaigners committed to achieving a more gender equal future. We have worked towards this since 1989.