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Covid-19 & Women: your weekly update

Aug 23 - Aug 27

Dear Subscribers,

We hope you are safe and well. This is our weekly newsletter bringing you the latest on gender, the economy and Covid-19. In 2021, we hope to continue bringing you relevant news on the gendered effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. If you like what we are bringing you, forward this email to a friend or two so they can sign up here.

Before we start, we have some exciting upcoming events we would like to share...

Local Data Project: START (Statistics To Achieve Real Transformation) Programme
Wednesday 15th September | Thursday 23rd September | Wednesday 6th October | 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Our next series of Local Data Project workshops, the START programme, is launching in September, designed to introduce you to key tools which you can use to uncover inequality in your local area. This is a beginner level programme and no previous experience of data, statistics or maths is necessary. You can find out more details and register here.

If you would like us to include anything related to gender and covid-19, please reply to this email or email admin@wbg.org.uk - thank you!

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

Our recent work...

How has the risk of precarious work in the UK evolved since Covid-19?
WBG has published a new policy briefing in collaboration with Tracey Warren, Luis D. Torres and Annegreet Veeken at Nottingham University, exploring the ways in which the pandemic has shaped and reshaped inequalities for men and women in their working lives.

WBG response to Government Plans on Funding for Social Care
WBG welcomes the governments action on social care, however the current proposals would disproportionately impact young people and working families, emphasising the need for a more progressive solution.

‘Freedom Day’ – what are the implications of lifting lockdown restrictions in England?
We recently published a briefing exploring the gendered and equalities impacts of lifting lockdown restrictions in England.

Leading Women’s Organisations Call on Government to ‘Build Back Fairer’
WBG alongside leading women's organisations across the sector have identified 10 key areas for the government to focus on to deliver a truly fair post-pandemic recovery.

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

Time for action: towards an intersectional gender approach to COVID-19 vaccine development and deployment that leaves no one behind
A recent journal article in BMJ highlights the importance of engaging women at all levels to ensure that scientific, policymaking and programmatic decision-making processes benefit from women's leadership, expertise and perspectives, in the hopes of narrowing the gendered disparities in health outcomes and vaccine uptake.

Climate Change and the Covid-19 crisis are Two Sides of the Same Coin: You can’t Tackle One Without the Other
In a blog post for LSE Women, Peace and Security Forum, feminist activist Felogene Anumo, highlights the interconnected nature of the current health and climate crisis and the gendered and intersectional inequalities as a result, highlighting the need for systematic change going forward.

TUC calls on Treasury to create permanent furlough scheme
The Guardian reports on the TUC's calls to implement a permanent furlough scheme that protects workers from difficulty in times of crisis.

UK workers need right to disconnect amid ‘overtime epidemic’, says report
With the increase of homeworking, thinktank Autonomy, highlights the hidden 'overtime epidemic', which disproptinately impacts women, and calls for employees to have the right to fully disconnect from work outside their agreed hours, as reported by The Guardian.

Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity
UNDP, WHO and University of Oxford have come together to produce the latest data and insights on the global roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine, allowing policymakers and researchers to explore the implications of vaccine inequity for socio-economic recovery and global health.

The Rich World’s Super-Spreader Shame
A recent article in Project Syndicate urges G20 countries to follow through with global vaccine commitments and establish new international standards for pathogen surveillance and travel protocols to ensure chances of mass spread of the virus remains limited.

Upcoming Events

Gender and Health Research Agenda Setting for COVID-19: Initial Results
Wednesday 1st September 2021 | 14:00pm - 15:00pm (BST)
The United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) and the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape co-convene a collaborative gender and COVID-19 research agenda-setting exercise. By inviting responses from civil society members, donors, policymakers, implementors and researchers, the aim is to build consensus on research priorities to address a gender transformative health sector response to COVID-19. One that addresses gender biases across various dimensions of the health sector ranging from the bench sciences involved, the nature of healthcare provided across clinics and homes, and the representativeness of COVID policy processes to galvanize feminist action. Register 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.