NWCI Blog: We must gender proof the budget

Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013

In 2012, NWCI organised a seminar called Bearing the Brunt?The seminar set out to explore the impact of the recession on women.  The title ended in a deliberate question mark. The seminar was not about making a definitive statement; it was all about starting a debate about the effects of the recession and subsequent budgets on women, placing women in the picture when budget decisions are being made.

Now, half way through the year, NWCI Policy Officer uses her blog as the perfect opportunity to revisit this theme and see what the information is telling us.

NWCI blog looks at key issues:

The issue of economic independence for women, that is to say the wages that a woman must earn so that she is not relying on support from others, is important. 

Women are far less likely to be employed than men.

Occupational segregation, referring to the fact that women often work in very different sectors and industries to men, remains a feature of the Irish workforce.

In their analysis of Budget 2013, the Department of Social Protection found that In terms of impact, employed lone parents were most affected

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