This week marks Mental Health Awareness Week, in a year which has seen women's mental health be challenged like never before. The bereavement, trauma and isolation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, combined with the massive increase in unpaid work done by women including home-schooling, stepping in where social care visits were stopped, and emotional support for friends and family, has impacted on all of our mental wellbeing.
As part of our work for a gendered recovery, we carried out a survey on the impacts of COVID-19 developed alongside Close the Gap, the UK Women’s Budget Group, Fawcett Society, Women’s Equality Network Wales, and Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group. The survey was carried out by Survation between 18-27 February 2021 across the four nations in the UK.
The results of this research relating to mental health are stark, but not surprising, and include the findings:
The surveying also showed that there are high levels of public support for policies that could advance women’s labour market and economic equality, such as those we proposed in our paper on a gendered economic recovery for Scotland.
February 2022 - Policy Round Up
A Gender Audit for the Scottish Parliament
January 2022 - Policy Round Up
Delivering Equally Safe - how can we prevent violence against women?
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