The Statistics
35.4% of women in Northern Ireland cite family and home responsibilities as the reason for their ‘economic inactivity.’
Married women make 75p less per hour than married men.
Spend per male apprenticeships is 53% higher than spend per female apprenticeships.
Married women make 75p less per hour than married men.
Spend per male apprenticeships is 53% higher than spend per female apprenticeships.
The Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group’s mission is to secure an inclusive and gender equal economy in Northern Ireland and demystify the budgetary process.
At the Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group, we scrutinise budgets and spending decisions for their gender implications in order to highlight their differential impacts on women, men and other gender identities. We advocate on several policy issues ranging from childcare to social security to the gender pay gap, to name a few. Working at a 5 nations level, a devolved level and a local level, our goal is to achieve gender equality through the reformation of our economic systems.
The NIWBG envisions:
- An intersectional, green, caring gender-equal economy,
- The implementation of gender budgeting in all areas of decision-making, so that decision-makers not only recognise and mitigate the systemic disadvantages faced by women, but also promote gender equality through their policies and budgets,
- A transparent, demystified budgetary process, so that people know where their money is being spent and understand how it is being spent.
Alexandra Brennan
Coordinator