Australia’s COVID recession hurt women more than men, and not only in job numbers.
With schools and childcare centres closed, many women who remained in paid work had no choice but to take on more unpaid work, effectively working double shifts.
Yet much of the government’s budget response involved high-viz vests and hard hats.
These gender differences would have been apparent to the government if it had run its policy ideas through a “gender lens” – a process that used to be built into the government’s budget decision-making.
Promises of A$1.7 billion in childcare relief in Tuesday’s budget aim to lift women’s workforce involvement, but bigger steps beyond the perfunctory Women’s Economic Security Statement are needed to bring a gender lens to policy design.
Applying a gender lens on the budget is not about pitting women against men
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Health by Jade Gailberger 5th May 2021 5:20 AM Australia is at risk of damaging its global standing if it maintains its controversial closed border strategy, economists say. The federal government s tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas COVID-19 outbreaks. But ahead of next week s budget, CEDA senior economist Gabriela D Souza has warned the draconian measures could have an unintended cost. To continue our closed border policy is a threat to our commitment to globalism, especially as other countries begin to vaccinate the populations and open up their borders and welcome migrants, Ms D Souza said on Tuesday.
Health by Jade Gailberger 5th May 2021 5:20 AM Australia is at risk of damaging its global standing if it maintains its controversial closed border strategy, economists say. The federal government s tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas COVID-19 outbreaks. But ahead of next week s budget, CEDA senior economist Gabriela D Souza has warned the draconian measures could have an unintended cost. To continue our closed border policy is a threat to our commitment to globalism, especially as other countries begin to vaccinate the populations and open up their borders and welcome migrants, Ms D Souza said on Tuesday.
Health by Jade Gailberger 5th May 2021 5:20 AM Australia is at risk of damaging its global standing if it maintains its controversial closed border strategy, economists say. The federal government s tough travel ban on India is the latest temporary restriction aimed at quashing the threat of overseas COVID-19 outbreaks. But ahead of next week s budget, CEDA senior economist Gabriela D Souza has warned the draconian measures could have an unintended cost. To continue our closed border policy is a threat to our commitment to globalism, especially as other countries begin to vaccinate the populations and open up their borders and welcome migrants, Ms D Souza said on Tuesday.
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