Broken and Biased: The impact of the housing emergency on women

October 31, 2024, 12.30 – 13.30

Online

The booking deadline for this event has passed. If you would like to attend, please email info@engender.org.uk.

Women in Scotland are disproportionately impacted by the housing emergency.

The situation is even worse for women dealing with multiple layers of inequality. BME, disabled, and refugee women, lone parents, and those with caring responsibilities, often face relentless difficulty in securing stable housing.

Join Shelter Scotland and Engender for this joint webinar session exploring their new briefing which demonstrates the multiple barriers that our current housing system stacks in front of women, and the shocking ways it ignores their specific needs, pushing women into cycles of poverty and instability.

By attending, you will: 

• Understand how decades of underinvestment in social homes combined with years of austerity has created a housing system which does not work for women.
• Learn about the changes needed to social security to tackle women’s economic inequality, which restricts their access to housing.
• Discover and discuss the action required to address the housing emergency from a gendered perspective, including Investment in research and improved data collection to ensure women’s homelessness is better understood.

 You will hear from: 

• Shelter Scotland
• Engender
• Ubuntu Women’s Shelter
• The Bridges Partnership Project

Who is the event for? 

Anyone is welcome to attend, but the webinar will be particularly useful for professionals working in policy development, advocacy and campaigns related to housing, homelessness, the cost of living crisis, domestic abuse and women’s equality. 

Book your free place on this webpage. We look forward to welcoming you.  

How to attend

This event will be held via Zoom in ‘webinar’ format, so participant cameras will not be turned on. You will be able to ask questions of our speakers using the Q&A function during the event. Live transcription will be provided, and please contact Engender if you have any other access requirements or we can do anything else to make it easier for you to attend.

This event is open to all and free to attend, but advance booking is required. All attendees will be sent a Zoom link before the event, please check your junk folder if it doesn’t arrive!

The booking deadline for this event has passed. If you would like to attend, please email info@engender.org.uk.