Applying a gender lens on the budget is not about pitting women against men
- Written by Leonora Risse, Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
Australia’s COVID recession hurt women more than men, and not only in job numbers.
With schools and childcare centres closed, many women who remained in paid work had no choice but to take on more unpaid work, effectively working double shifts.
Yet much of the government’s budget response involved high-viz vests and hard hats.
These...