Cuts to Social Security for Disabled Women
Together with other women's organisations, we've written to the Chancellor to express concerns about cuts to disability benefits
We advance gender equality in policymaking through feminist approaches to economics.
We are a feminist think tank that raises awareness of and provides evidence for a gender equal economy - acting as a link between academia, the women’s voluntary sector and progressive economics think tanks.
Read more about what we doThis briefing examines a human rights approach to social security for women in the UK and is in collaboration with Amnesty International UK.
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Women's voices must be heard and their interests represented at the heart of government
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