Women’s Budget Group UK (WBG)

The Women’s Budget Group (WBG) is a UK-based, independent and not-for-profit membership network consisting of women’s voluntary organisations, academics and policy experts whose aims are to promote a gender-equal economy. They do this by conducting an in-depth analysis of the impact of policy on women. Their analysis has been used to influence policy debates on a national and local level.

• Twitter: @WomensBudgetGrp

• Email: admin@wbg.org.uk

• Publications and resources

  • The Gendered Impact Of The Cost-of-Living Crisis on Public Services (2022)

  • Misguided plans for Austerity 2.0 – WBG response to Autumn Statement 2022

  • Diski, R. (2022) UK Feminist Green New Deal Final Report: A Green and Caring Economy

  • Nikolaidi, M. (2022) UK Feminist Green New Deal Policy Papers: Macrofinancial policies for a green and caring economy

  • WBG analysis finds cuts to benefits would drive over 100,000 lone parents and 200,000 children into poverty (2022) WBG

  • Who loses from benefit uprating changes? A gendered analysis (2022) WBG

  • An Inequality Budget Unfit for a Cost-of-Living Crisis (2022) WBG

  • The Cost Crisis: a Gendered Analysis (2022) WBG

  • Trade and Health: a Gendered Analysis (2022) WBG

  • The Income Crisis: a Gendered Analysis (2022) WBG

  • The gendered impact on incomes of two measures to tackle cost-of-living crisis (2022) WBG

  • Gender Analysis of the Cumulative Distributional Impact of 2022 Tax and Benefit Changes and Inflation (2021) WBG

  • Johnston, A. (April 2021). ‘Gender differences in access to coronavirus government support’. Women’s Budget Group.

  • Johnston, A. (January 2021). ‘Lessons Learned: Where Women Stand at the Start of 2021, the economic and health impacts of Covid-19’. Women’s Budget Group.

  • Women’s Budget Group, Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid, Young Women’s Trust, Imkaan, Maternity Action, and WEN Wales (July 2021). ‘Building back fairer for women and girls’. 

  • UK Women’s Budget Group, Fawcett Society, Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group, Women’s Equality Network Wales, Close the Gap and Engender. (March 2021). ‘One year on: Women are less likely than men to feel the Government’s response to Covid-19 has met their needs’.

  • Sharples, M. (Sept 2020). Creating a caring economy: A call to action. UK Women’s Budget Group.

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Hana Abid

• Currently based in: United Kingdom, Europe

• Email: hana.abid@wbg.org.uk

• Publication and/or resources: 

  • Webinar: (8 Feb 2022). ‘Gender responsive budgeting: what it is and how to do it.’ Webinar delivered by Micaela Fernandez Erlauer, Marion Sharples, and Hana Abid. WBG.

  • Webinar: (12 Nov 2021). ‘Gender Equalities at Work – Learning Lessons from the Past for the Present.’ Speakers include Frances Galt, Hazel Conley, Hana Abid, and Felicia Willow. WBG.

  • Abid, H. (June 2021). ‘Access to childcare in Great Britain’. UK Women’s Budget Group

Marion Sharples

• Currently based in: United Kingdom, Europe

• Email: marion.sharples@wbg.org.uk

• Publication and/or resources: 

  • Webinar: (29 April 2021). ‘Labour7 Summit 26-27 April 2021 – Session 2: Health and Social Protection.’

  • Speakers include Christina McAnea, Marion Sharples, and Takayuki Yagi. Trades Union Congress.

  • Sharples, M. (Sept 2020). Creating a caring economy: A call to action. UK Women’s Budget Group.

Mary-Ann Stephenson

• Currently based in: United Kingdom, Europe

• Other affiliations: Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre; Just Fair

• Email: maryann.stephenson@wbg.org.uk

• Publication and/or resources:

  • Howard, M., Bennett, F., and Stephenson, M-A. (17 Mar 2021). ‘Joint response on the possibility of separate Universal Credit payments to partners in couples’ [Open letter].

  • Podcast: “#55 FiLiA meets: Mary-Ann Stephenson”. Women’s Liberation Now!

Sara Reis

• Currently based in: United Kingdom, Europe

• Email: sara.reis@wbg.org.uk

• Publication and/or resources: 

  • Coelho, L., Glotsos, D., and Reis, S. (2023). ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic: How Technology Is Reshaping Public Health and Medicine.’ PubMed.

  • Reis, S. (May 2020). ‘Migrant women and the economy’. UK Women’s Budget Group.