A report examined the position of single homeless women across England. Many of them were not receiving the assistance they required with accessing accommodation, reflecting the fact that their wider situations, needs, and vulnerabilities were not always adequately taken into account. The report called for improvements and changes to local authority homelessness assessments, decisions, and practices.
Source: Kesia Reeve, Rionach Casey and Rosalind Goudie, Homeless Women: Still being failed yet striving to survive, Crisis (020 7015 1800)
Links: Report | Summary | Crisis press release
Date: 2006-Nov
The sex equality watchdog said that planned government pension reforms would fail to tackle inequalities in retirement saving between the sexes, and leave millions of women still living on less than men in retirement.
Source: What Women Expect: Pension reform designed for the lives they lead, Equal Opportunities Commission (0161 833 9244) and Scottish Widows
Links: Report | EOC press release | Guardian report
Date: 2006-Nov
A report examined the range of gender issues in health outcomes in Scotland, and the relationship between gender and health inequalities.
Source: Rona Fitzgerald, Fair for All Gender Research, Equal Opportunities Commission Scotland (0845 601 5904)
Links: Report
Date: 2006-Jul
A report examined the issues raised by the gender equality duty in care for older people.
Source: Gender Equality in Public Services: Care for Older People, Equal Opportunities Commission Wales (029 2034 3552) and Welsh Consumer Council
Links: Report | WCC press release
Date: 2006-Apr
A report presented a gender analysis of the social security system. It explored the impact of benefits and tax credits on women's and men's income and on gender roles; and set out recommendations for reforms to make the system fairer.
Source: Kate Bellamy, Fran Bennett and Jane Millar, Who Benefits?: A gender analysis of the UK benefits and tax credits system, Fawcett Society (020 7253 2598)
Links: Report | Fawcett Society press release
Date: 2006-Apr
A paper published by the sex equality watchdog said that targeting state support at those least able to save parents, carers, and low-paid workers could deliver a pensions system which lifted people out of poverty and offered everyone the chance of an adequate income in retirement.
Source: Chris Curry and Adam Steventon, Modelling the EOC s Pension Reform Proposals, Working Paper 43, Equal Opportunities Commission (0161 833 9244)
Links: Paper | EOC press release
Date: 2006-Apr
A paper said that the obstacles to women building an adequate pension were that women had lower lifetime earnings and fewer savings opportunities than men, and they lived longer. It dismissed the claim that gender inequalities were a recent phenomenon caused by rising divorce rates.
Source: Pat Thane, 'The 'scandal' of women's pensions in Britain: how did it come about?', History and Policy (web publication only)
Links: Paper | Bristol University press release
Date: 2006-Apr