Women of an Independent Mind: The Future of Women’s Equality in Scotland

Stephen Richard — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 20:10:20 +0000

Primary Author or Creator

Angela O’Hagan

Stephen Richard Sun, 09/12/2021 - 21:10

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Common Weal

Alternative Published Date

September 2020

Category

Women

Human Rights

Type of Resource

Policy Paper

Fast Facts

This policy paper outlines a series of proposals for how to work towards women’s equality in an independent Scotland

More details

― Women’s unequal economic, financial, and social status compared to men’s is persistent and enduring. Women earn less, drive less, and are less visible in political and public life.

― The lack of gendered analysis that captures and dismantles constraints of gender relations means public policy decisions on taxation, skills and employment, economic policy, welfare, health, housing, and transport, for example, will continue to impact differently on women and men, generally to women’s disadvantage. None of these issues falls into the stereotypical category of “women’s issues” but they are all women’s issues.

― This report argues for such a gendered analysis in multiple aspects of policy-making in Scotland.

― Areas of particular concern examined by the report include: care (including childcare), immigration, economic development, taxation, economic wellbeing and the allocation of public resources.

― A future Scotland has the opportunity to recast gender roles and relations, creating a more progressive and equal society no longer defined by out-dated and harmful stereotypes of what it means to be a woman or man or the roles we play in work, in families, and in politics.

Resource Address (URL)

https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Women-of-an-Independent-Mind…

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Language English