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Where you were born, your education, class, and a long list of other factors affect the likelihood of your experiencing poverty.  These factors create a ‘web of likelihoods’. The more overlapping your web is, the higher the

large-scale study from Steer Education, published in February 2022, found that the mental health of girls (aged 11-18) is “at a precipice” with the pandemic leading to a “growing gulf” between girls and boys. Particular

from allocating spending on education and leisure, to deciding how and where public transport runs. And yet it is in local councils that women’s underrepresentation is clearest – with only 24% of local councillors being women. Of the

• Education and Skills has been assigned funds to invest in tackling sexual harassment and gender-based violence against women and girls on university campuses. • Justice will implement the Domestic

and people in full-time education. Like all social security payments, we want anybody who needs it to be able to access Carer's Assistance, and we want recognition of the additional admin, emotional labour and stress which can come with

We’ve launched our new series of mini-briefings shining a spotlight on how to achieve a primary prevention approach in different areas of public policy with this new briefing highlighting why safe and accessible public transport is key to

This blog post, written by two long-term insecurely employed feminist researchers at a Scottish university, shares research on job insecurity and inequalities in the UK workplace