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Unravelling Equality: The Impact of the United Kingdom's Spending Cuts on Women
Author(s) -
STEPHENSON MARYANN,
HARRISON JAMES
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2011.02256.x
Subject(s) - blueprint , public spending , gender equality , inequality , human rights , economics , gender inequality , political science , public economics , labour economics , development economics , demographic economics , sociology , law , gender studies , politics , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This article examines a report on the likely impact of the spending cuts on women. The report, Unravelling Equality: A Human Rights and Equality Impact Assessment of the Spending Cuts on Women in Coventry , concludes that the public spending cuts will increase inequality between women and men. For some women the cuts may have serious negative effects on their human rights. The article argues that this report provides a blueprint for the kind of analysis which should be carried out all over the country to ensure that the impact of spending cuts on women is better understood and acted upon.