First thoughts on the #Higgins proposals for economic recovery in Scotland.

Good things for women’s equality:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📊" title="Balkendiagramm" aria-label="Emoji: Balkendiagramm">Gender-sensitive sex-disaggregated data being used in (future) economic policymaking

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧽" title="Sponge" aria-label="Emoji: Sponge">Acceleration of reform and investment in adult social care

Things that might be good for women’s equality:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💷" title="Banknote mit Pfund-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Banknote mit Pfund-Zeichen">Sectoral Fair Work agreements, if Fair Work was better gendered and wage-setting powers were used to revalue underpaid work

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌎" title="Amerika auf dem Globus" aria-label="Emoji: Amerika auf dem Globus">Investment in green jobs and technologies, esp. if we can bake in tackling occupational segregation

Things that might be good for women’s equality:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖥" title="Desktop-Computer" aria-label="Emoji: Desktop-Computer">More flexible modes of working, although the “Centre for Workplace Transformation” needs to draw more on the work of gender experts like @closethepaygap

Potentially missed opportunities for women’s equality:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flagge der Europäischen Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Europäischen Union">Following in the groove of the EU’s very trad stimulus plans risks a transfer of jobs from women to men

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤱🏽" title="Stillen (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Stillen (mittlerer Hautton)">Women’s disproportionate unpaid work as a result of #COVIDー19 is acknowledged and then pretty much ignored

You can read @EngenderScot and @closethepaygap’s 9 principles for a well-gendered economic recovery here: https://www.engender.org.uk/content/publications/Gender--Economic-Recovery---Engender-and-Close-the-Gap.pdf.">https://www.engender.org.uk/content/p...

They were supported by @scotwomensaid @OPFS @EquateScotland @ZTScotland @youngwomenscot @WEScotland @SWCwomen & @swbg.

The #Higgins paper is available at the @scotgov website here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/towards-robust-resilient-wellbeing-economy-scotland-report-advisory-group-economic-recovery/">https://www.gov.scot/publicati...