The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how deep-rooted gender inequality is within our society. As restrictions lift, Women’s Budget Group, Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid, Young Women’s Trust, Imkaan, Maternity Action and WEN Wales joined together to look to the future and set out this vision for how the UK could build back fairer for women and girls in all our diversity and come out of the pandemic with a stronger and fairer society for all.
The pandemic has entrenched and expanded pre-pandemic inequalities. This research shows that the uneven impact of school closures, shutdown industries, furlough, and flexible working arrangements are marked between mothers and fathers, those on lower incomes and higher incomes, white and Black, Asian, and ethnic minority groups and those who are not disabled compared to those who are disabled.
