The government’s plans to introduce a new universal credit are intended to improve work incentives and simplify a complex benefits system, but may work against its duty to promote gender equality. Here, Fran Bennett, drawing on work for the Women’s Budget Group, looks at the impact the new benefit may have on gender issues, in particular on financial autonomy for women. She argues that the proposals take insufficient account of the nature of modern families and the lives of those on low incomes and so may undermine some of the government’s other policy goals (including encouraging committed couple relationships and tackling child poverty), and may also result in greater economic dependence and threaten the return of a ‘single breadwinner’ f...
April 2011 will see the implementation of many areas of the government’s deficit reduction strategy....
Women’s economic independence is considered to be one of modern society’s greatest achievements. Wit...
It has been the practice for over thirty years for Federal Governments to produce a Women’s Budget S...
The government’s plans to introduce a new universal credit are intended to improve work incentives a...
The proposed Universal Benefit is one of the coalition’s flagship policies, aiming to consolidate be...
Universal Credit is a fundamental reform of the UK’s social security system. It is also seen as embo...
Universal Credit has been rolled out gradually in the United Kingdom since 2013 as one integrated me...
The UK government has been considering the design and delivery of the proposed “universal credit”, ...
The gender-blind “workless” frame has been increasingly prominent in UK welfare discourse in recent ...
Universal Credit is a new benefits delivery system designed to streamline UK benefits and tax credit...
Joint couple payments under Universal Credit tend to privilege male partners, which may entrap women...
Studies that assess the impact of credit constraints on farm households ’ efficiency have largely us...
Alongside a series of cuts that will reduce welfare spending by £18 billion per year by 2014-15, the...
Welfare reform and the implementation of Universal Credit has been met with a high degree of sceptic...
ZSUniversal Credit is a fundamental reform of means-tested working age benefits in the UK, replacing...
April 2011 will see the implementation of many areas of the government’s deficit reduction strategy....
Women’s economic independence is considered to be one of modern society’s greatest achievements. Wit...
It has been the practice for over thirty years for Federal Governments to produce a Women’s Budget S...
The government’s plans to introduce a new universal credit are intended to improve work incentives a...
The proposed Universal Benefit is one of the coalition’s flagship policies, aiming to consolidate be...
Universal Credit is a fundamental reform of the UK’s social security system. It is also seen as embo...
Universal Credit has been rolled out gradually in the United Kingdom since 2013 as one integrated me...
The UK government has been considering the design and delivery of the proposed “universal credit”, ...
The gender-blind “workless” frame has been increasingly prominent in UK welfare discourse in recent ...
Universal Credit is a new benefits delivery system designed to streamline UK benefits and tax credit...
Joint couple payments under Universal Credit tend to privilege male partners, which may entrap women...
Studies that assess the impact of credit constraints on farm households ’ efficiency have largely us...
Alongside a series of cuts that will reduce welfare spending by £18 billion per year by 2014-15, the...
Welfare reform and the implementation of Universal Credit has been met with a high degree of sceptic...
ZSUniversal Credit is a fundamental reform of means-tested working age benefits in the UK, replacing...
April 2011 will see the implementation of many areas of the government’s deficit reduction strategy....
Women’s economic independence is considered to be one of modern society’s greatest achievements. Wit...
It has been the practice for over thirty years for Federal Governments to produce a Women’s Budget S...