The Women's Budget Group response to Emergency Budget

The process of looking at the economic outcomes of the budget through a gendered perspective provides a better evidence base for policy making and is a statutory requirement under the Gender Equality Duty.

However, the budget still lacks an explicitly gendered analysis.

The Women's Budget Group has produced a preliminary analysis of how the Coalition Government’s Emergency Budget will impact on the individual incomes of women and men and shows that while the budget has a few individual measures that help to offset gender inequality, taken as a whole the budget is unfair in its impact on women as compared to men.

The analysis reveals that the Budget seems more supportive of an out-dated ‘male breadwinner, dependent female carer’ model of relations between women and men, than an egalitarian ‘dual earner, dual carer’ model and therefore runs the risk of fostering, in the long run, a fall in women’s participation in the labour market, and the loss of the talents of many women to the economy.

The full report can be downloaded to the right hand side, or here - Women's Budget Group - Emergency Budget Response

A detailed gender audit of the emergency budget can also be downloaded on the right hand side.