There will be additional challenges for women and women’s services.

The Women’s Budget Group (WBG) has produced a briefing that sets out the immediate impact that the Covid-19 crisis is having on women.

It needs to be addressed.

Covid-19 is a global public health crisis which is fast developing into a full-blown economic crisis. It has specific and different impacts on men and women and there has been and is an ongoing failure to take the different economic positions of women and men into account.