An opportunity to demystify the data on childcare, attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to find data on childcare costs and women's earnings, as well as take part in a practical session to use this information to build a picture of what the situation is like in your local area.
Local Data Project FIND Series We recently launched the Local Data Project: FIND Series, which is a rolling programme designed to introduceyou to some of the key tools you can use to uncover inequality in your local area. This is an exciting new beginner level programme, with opportunities to network, promote peer learning, and build relationships with and between organisations working towards the same goal: women's equality.
You can keep up-to-date with Local Data Project events through our website or by signing up to the newsletter.
Global Partnerships and Learning Programme
We have recently launched ourGlobal Partnerships and Learning programme. Through the programme, we are developing collaborative partnerships with civil society organisations around the world, focusing on gender-responsive budgeting and how it, as a tool, can be employed to achieve transformative outcomes. Want to learn more and find out how you can involved? Click here.
Towards Gender Inclusive and Sustainable Transport Systems
We have recently published a new briefing as part of our collaborative project with Wen, for the Feminist Green New Deal, outlining the four key structural factors that create gender disparities in transport systems, and what must be done to address these concerns and decarbonise transport in a just and inclusive way. You can read more here.
Covid-19 and Working Class Women Study
We have recently published the final report of a collaborative project between UK WBG and Professor Tracey Warren(Nottingham University) and Professor Clare Lyonette(University of Warwick), which analyses the impact of the pandemic on women across a range of areas, including furlough, division of housework and childcare, financial security, flexible working as well as the overall impact of the pandemic on health and wellbeing. You can read more here.
Losses in the Childcare Sector
We have recently published a policy briefing looking at data published by Department for Education, which highlights a significant fall in childcare providers since April 2020.
Joint Letter Calling for Early Intervention on Gender Stereotypes We have recently signed a joint letter, organised by the Fawcett Society and Lifting Limits, to the Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson MP, calling for early intervention on gender stereotypes - which you can read more about here.
'Don't Dismiss Supermarket Pay Cases'
Our Director, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, comments on an article on recent decisions made regarding the gender pay gap between supermarket workers in the Financial Times.
Webinar: How to Make Tax Fair
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson also spoke at a recent webinar hosted by Christians on the Left, which examined how we can reform the tax system to serve society better and ensure equitable outcomes for all.
Webinar: The WI presents...Women in Leadership
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson took part in a webinar hosted by the Women's Institute, exploring the role women leaders can play in climate change and building back better from the pandemic.
Find everything the Women's Budget Grouphas done on Covid-19 here. This includes our reports on the impact that Covid-19 has onSocial Security andSocial Care, as well as joint letters, policy responses, and more.
Caring without Sharing: Single parents' journey through the Covid-19 pandemic
The final report arising from Gingerbread’sCaring Without Sharing research project highlights the unique challenges for working single parents created by the pandemic and how these challenges have evolved over time and what action is needed going forward.
How to Build Public Support to Transform Social Care
An evidence-based framework and language guide on how to talk about social care, with the aim of building public understanding and support for social care investment and reform, published by #socialcarefuture.
Eight tech companies in the UK avoided an estimated £1.5bn in 2019 Tax Justice UK's recent report has found that eight large multinational tech companies made an estimated £9.6bn in profit from sales to UK customers in 2019, but despite this only faced corporation tax liabilities of £297m – avoiding a huge £1.5bn in tax. You can read the full report and findings here.
Promoting Gender Equality in the Workplace: An E-Guide
A recently published handbook promoting Gender Equality in the workplace, commissioned by the British Embassy in Athens, partly based on a training course delivered by UK WBG and partners on Promoting Gender Equality in the Workplace.
The Cost Of Childcare Is Catastrophic For Women Grazia and its parenting platform The Juggle are launching a major new campaign with Pregnant Then Screwed, calling for a Government review of our childcare system. You can read more here.
School Breakfast Standards, Magic Breakfast Magic Breakfast have issued a statement on School Breakfast Standards, with the aim to establish consensus on the purpose of school breakfast provision and are calling all providers to meet the same standards that Magic Breakfast delivers to. You can read more here.
Is Austerity Gendered? Diane Perrons, Professor Emerita in Feminist Political Economy at the LSE, has written a blog on her newly published book Is Austerity Gendered?, highlighting the ways in which the ideas and policy outcomes of austerity disproportionately impact women and urging a new way forward which prioritises sustainable and equitable outcomes.
Working from home: How classism covertly dominated the conversation Professor Tracey Warren (University of Nottingham) and Professor Clare Lyonette (University of Warwick) writein The Conversation on the research carried out in collaboration with WBG, on the often overlooked classed experiences of workers throughout the pandemic, urging further action to support those most negatively impacted.
How Women Can Save The Planet, by Anne Karpf
Recently published by Hurst Publishers, this book examines the absence of women's voices in the conversation on the climate emergency, and in response, calls for global climate policies that are gender-inclusive and promote gender equality.
The Return of the State: Restructuring Britain for the Common Good, agenda publishing
This newly published book considers different perspectives on how to achieve a sustainable and just recovery from Covid-19, including a chapter on reforming social care through a care-led recovery (authored by Professor Sue Himmelweit, member of WBG Management Committee).
You can view the online launch of the book, chaired by Miatta Fahnbulleh, CEO of the New Economics Foundation with contributions by Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband, FT columnist Martin Sandbu and chapter authors Robert Skidelsky, Ann Pettifor, Will Hutton and Kate Pickett.
Watch: State Pension Inequality and Pensioner Poverty Daniella Jenkins, Doctoral candidate at King's College London and Central Saint Martin's Social Design Institute, and Policy Advisory Group member at UK WBG, was a panellist at a webinar organised by the National Pensioners Convention on pension inequalities. You can watch the webinar here.
Webinar: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues NERI has recently organised a webinar on 'Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues' hosted by Fran Bennett, Honorary Researcher, Oxford University and member of the Policy Advisory Group & Women's Budget Group ,and Dr Micheál Collins, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD was the respondent.
Local Data Project: Calculating the Cost of Childcare Wednesday 7 July 2021 | 10:30am - 12:30pm
An opportunity to demystify the data on childcare, attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to find data on childcare costs and women's earnings, as well as take part in a practical session to use this information to build a picture of what the situation is like in your local area. Register here.
Investing in Care? Private Finance and Social Infrastructures Wednesday 7 July 2021| 2:00pm BST
Social care is often seen as a drain on the economy, subject to a sustained crisis, which has been exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic. Yet in the UK and internationally these services have attracted huge investor interest over the last two decades – from private equity firms and real estate funds to impact investors. In this event, we’ll explore: Why has private finance come to play such a significant role in care homes, home care and related efforts to achieve social impact? What does this mean for the many people working in care and all of us who rely on these services? What alternative approaches could we promote that might address the inequalities of the current ‘financialised’ system? This event is co-hosted by UCL Geography and the LSE International Inequalities Institute's 'Global Economies of Care' research theme. Register here.
2nd International Working Class Academics Conference Tuesday 13 July 2021 - Wednesday 14 July 2021 | 09:10am - 18:50pm BST
Celebrating the varied contributions of academics from a wide array of backgrounds and lived experiences and appreciating the way in which this shapes and reshapes knowledge. This conference challenges the marginalisation of working class academics and provides a space to celebrate, learn and network with others. You can read more about the conference and register here.
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.
