Women’s equality in the UK – A health check

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the barriers they face on a daily basis. 75 (Appendix: 36) Recommendation: Create a fair simplified system which assesses disabled women’s gender and disability specific needs for benefits, accessible employment opportunities and support. The system must assess disability, housing and income benefit entitlement on a case by case basis, rather than impose a ‘one size fits’ all model on disabled women General Recommendation 27 - Older women: The Government has done little to address the specific inequalities experienced by the ageing population of women in the UK. Recent policies have made this group even more vulnerable. 76 We support and endorse the submission on older women’s rights which the Committee has received. 77 75. Butler, P. (2011) ‘Do Cuts Kill?’, The Guardian, 16th November 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2011/ nov/16/do-public-spending-cuts-kill and Benefitsclaimantsfightback (2012) ‘Disabled activists and UK Uncut join to oppose ‘cruel and unnecessary’ welfare bill’, National Protest Against Benefits Cuts blog, 25th January 2012 http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress. com/2012/01/25/disabled-activists-and-uk-uncut-join-to-oppose-cruel-and-unnecessary-welfare-bill-2/ 76. Women’s Budget Group (2010) The Impact on Women of the Coalition Spending Review 2010. WBG: London http://wbg.org.uk/RRB_ Reports_4_1653541019.pdf 77. Sclater, E. (2012) NGO Thematic Shadow Report: Older Women’s Rights in the United Kingdom. Older Women’s Network, Europe and National Alliance of Women’s Organisations http://thewomensresourcecentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/ olderwomensrightsukNGOthematic.pdf 18 Women’s equality in the UK: CEDAW shadow report 2013
1 2 3 4 5 Introduction This is a United Kingdom (UK) shadow report submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women by the CEDAW Working Group UK. The report has been informed by consultation events with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from across the UK throughout 2011 - 2012, submissions of information and research collected from 2008-2013, original qualitative research carried out with focus groups across England, discussions with academics, advocacy groups and NGO service providers from across the UK. Significant differences in policy and outcomes across UK jurisdictions are identified in Annex 1. In gathering evidence, every effort has been made to reference published research, quantitative and qualitative data. However it should be noted that the lack of data disaggregated by gender and other equality characteristics in some areas means that sometimes we were unable to provide the depth we would have liked. Specific references to articles in the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) are noted, as are areas of particular concern and policy recommendations are included throughout. The structure and headings in the report respond directly to the Government’s 7th Periodic Report. 1 This report is the collective effort of various writers and submissions which have been incorporated, a full list of acknowledgements is in Annex 6. The scope of the report is necessarily limited but we have tried to include information about different groups of women under each article and have extensive online appendices to provide more detailed information. The report includes analysis of progress made on the 2008 recommendations, 2 persistent inequality issues and human rights and equality issues emerging as a result of policy changes around austerity measures and reform of social protection and particularly how these have impacted on women’s rights and health. We have focused on women over the age of 18 as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3 covers under 18s and this is not the remit of CEDAW, therefore throughout the report ‘young women’ refers to over 18s but under Article 10 there is some information on girls in school and education policies for under 18s, as this has been included by the Government and has an impact on women in later life. There is also information on corporal punishment under Article 16. This report endorses and supports the other shadow reports from the UK, namely the report on older women, 4 and reports from Engender, 5 the Scottish Women’s Convention, 6 Northern Ireland Women’s European Platform 7 and the Women’s Equality Network Wales 8 covering the devolved administrations as well as a report from the Jersey Community Relations Trust (See 1. Government Equalities Office (2011) CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women) report. United Kingdom’s Seventh Periodic Report. GEO: London http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/equalities/international-equality/7thcedaw-report?view=Binary 2. CEDAW Committee (2008) Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Forty-first session http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/555/92/PDF/ N0955592.pdf?OpenElement 3. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) www.unicef.org/crc/ 4. Sclater, E. (2012) NGO Thematic Shadow Report: Older Women’s Rights in the United Kingdom. Older Women’s Network, Europe and National Alliance of Women’s Organisations http://thewomensresourcecentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/ olderwomensrightsukNGOthematic.pdf 5. Engender, CEDAW http://www.engender.org.uk/our-work/european-international/cedaw/ 6. Scottish Women’s Convention, CEDAW http://www.scottishwomensconvention.org/activities/cedaw 7. Northern Ireland Women’s European Platform http://www.niwep.org/default.asp 8. Women’s Equality Network Wales (2012) Submission to the Committee on the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, WEN Wales response. WEN Wales: Burry Port http://wenwales.org/wp-content/uploads/Submission-to-the-Committeeon-CEDAW-formatted-version-final.pdf Women’s equality in the UK: CEDAW shadow report 2013 19
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