Friday, 5 April 2019

The gendered impact of welfare reform

This is the title of an article by Richard Machin (Nottingham Trent University) published in Adviser the citizens advice journal for advisers and subscribers.

I have read it thanks to the British Library and it clearly sets out the problems that have beset women because of benefit changes. The article itself is not available online but many of the source materials used are. I've not copied them all but have picked those which I believe to be most relevant.

Equality and Human Rights Commission (2018), "Pressing for progress: women’s rights and gender equality in 2018"
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/pressing-progress-women%E2%80%99s-rights-and-gender-equality-2018

Close the Gap (2018), "Challenging poverty means challenging women’s inequality at work", https://www.closethegap.org.uk/news/blog/challenging-poverty-means-challenging-womens-inequality-at-work/

Equality and Human Rights Commission (2018), "The cumulative impact of tax and welfare reforms" https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/cumulative-impact-tax-and-welfare-reforms

Full Fact (2018), "Do new Universal Credit requirements affect women more?", https://fullfact.org/economy/universal-credit-women/

It is not strictly true to say that this is not available online but you need to sign up to Medium (using Google or Facebook) and then get lost in the multiplicity of sources. Personally I do not advise that you do this.




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