Confronting women’s poverty: It’s time to confront women’s poverty
It’s time to confront women’s poverty
Women’s poverty is preventable - it is a political choice that women, and their children, continue to experience a gender income gap in Scotland.
The rise in far-right forces in Scotland, and threats of further economic instability put women at heightened risk once more. Those with power in Scotland must confront women’s poverty in a practical, transformative way.
Breaking the cycle: A five-point plan to eliminate the income gap for women
- Taskforce on women’s poverty
- Women’s Equality Fund - crisis support for marginalised women
- Minimum Income Guarantee for unpaid carers
- Roadmap to a universal childcare system for all
- Overhaul of the public sector equality duty
Read more in our paper below, ‘Confronting women’s poverty: Building an effective response for an age of crisis’.
Our reports
Confronting Women's Poverty: An effective response to an age of crisis
Women’s poverty is preventable. Here’s our five point plan to end the unjust gender income gap.
Joint Response from Close the Gap, Engender and Scottish Women’s Aid to the call for evidence on the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-2031
Gender and the Housing Emergency
A collaborative report with Shelter Scotland.
Women & the Cost of Living: A Crisis of Deepening Inequality
Our in-depth analysis of the cost of living crisis and its effects on women in Scotland.
A WOMAN'S PLACE: GENDER, HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS IN SCOTLAND
Women are largely invisible in housing and homelessness policy across the UK. This report sets out the international context on the right to housing, summarises key issues for women’s equality across housing and homelessness, and explores the extent to which the legislative and policy landscapes in Scotland are gendered.
Gender Matters in Social Security: Individual Payments of Universal Credit
A paper calling on the Scottish Government to automatically split payments of Universal Credit between couples. Household payments of Universal Credit, which can leave women vulnerable to their income being managed by partners, has been described as ‘misogynistic’ by a United Nations expert on poverty.
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