Paid work, for example, is not an equal experience for women and men.

Welfare reforms will hit families in Northern Ireland harder than in the rest of the UK.

Northern Ireland has the highest claimant count and inactivity rate in the UK and 28 per cent of children in Northern Ireland live in poverty.

Household incomes, poverty rates and the labour market have all worsened in Northern Ireland in the last five years and more so than in Great Britain.