It’s time to confront women’s poverty in Scotland

It’s time to confront women’s poverty in Scotland

It’s time to confront women’s poverty in Scotland

Earlier this week, Engender launched their new series, Confronting Women’s Poverty, outlining their 5-point plan of action to eliminate the gender income gap & prevent destitution for women & their children.

Ineffective policy, decision-making, & responses to crises like the Covid-19 pandemic & rising cost of living have entrenched women’s poverty, with disabled women, women of colour, migrant women, lone parents & unpaid carers among those most harmed by this inequality.

Women’s poverty is preventable - it’s a political choice that women & their children continue to experience a gender income gap in Scotland.

We join Engender in calling for decisive action from the Scottish Government & others to break this cycle by:

1 > Creating a Taskforce on women’s poverty
2 > Creating a Women’s Equality Fund offering crisis support for marginalised women
3 > Introducing a Minimum Income Guarantee for unpaid carers
4 > Designing a roadmap to a universal childcare system for all
5 > Overhauling the public sector equality duty

Visit Confronting Women’s Poverty to learn more here, https://www.engender.org.uk/cwp/ and find Engender’s new paper, Confronting Women’s Poverty: An Effective Response to an Age of Crisis, here.