Tackling insecure work is a necessary step to advance women’s equality at work

By Anna Ritchie Allan, Executive Director, Close the Gap Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Close the Gap was working to highlight the increasing precarity of women’s employment in Scotland. This labour market trend was then exacerbated by Covid-19 job disruption which hit women the hardest, risking a rollback of progress that had been made on women’s … Read more

Blog : The cost of a truly skilled workforce

By Libby Eavis, Company Director of Grandview House & Mains House For many years, the female dominated health and social care sector has been seen as an unskilled workforce and has suffered from underfunding for this reason. It is now time we started looking at this sector, and women’s role within it differently. Each role … Read more