WBG Management Committee

Diane Elson, Chair has been a member of the UK Women’s Budget Group for more than 10 years, and is currently Chair of the Group. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Diane has published widely on women’s rights and government budgets, and acted as advisor on gender responsive budgeting to the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the United Nations Development Programme, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the government of Iceland.

Her recent publications include: 

‘Engendering Government Budgets in the Context of Globalisation(s)’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol.6, No.4 (pp 623-642) December 2004.

Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW, UNIFEM, New York, 2006.

(with R. Sharp) ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Poverty’ in S. Chant(ed) International Handbook on Gender and Poverty, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2010.

Claire Annesley

Scarlet Harris is the TUC's Women's Equality Officer. She joined the TUC in 2009 and works on a wide range of policy issues including maternity rights; representation of women in unions; occupational segregation; women in the labour market; equal pay; the gender pay gap; sex discrimination; violence against women; and family policy. As part of the TUC's ongoing work campaigning against public sector cuts, Scarlet has produced work on the gender impact of the cuts.

Susan Himmelweit

Jackie Longworth is a recent recruit to the WBG Management Committee, bringing experience of working on women's equality issues in a voluntary capacity. Her paid career was as an engineer in the electricity industry experiencing gender stereotyping first hand! She joined the Women's Engineering Society, becoming its President shortly before she retired. She was active in her male dominated engineers' Trade Union, becoming its President in the mid 1990s. Since retiring she has Chaired the regional women's equality network Fair Play South West and represented the SW TUC on the now abolished Regional Assembly, which she chaired for two years. Her mission on the WBC management committee is to develop strategy and plans for spreading the "Gender Budgeting" message into regions and localities of England, so that local budget decisions might further women's equality, rather than widen disparity.

Angela O'Hagan

Ruth Pearson

Pam Wain, Treasurer

WBG Coordinator

Amy Watson