Care Articles

When you are an unpaid carer life can become a bit of a balancing act. Your care responsibilities might mean that you are not able to work full time, or you might need to drop everything and rush home at a moment’s notice. Socialising can often take a back seat and...

There are several theories for why we pay care workers relatively little. Devaluation theory describes it in terms of gender bias – most care workers are women, and given decision-makers’ tendency to underestimate the contribution of female-dominated roles to the...

A big debate about devolution is brewing. For some, this is about more than empowering town halls or creating new layers of government in our regions. Instead of more politicians, they want to go one step further and devolve power directly to users of public services...

Labour must attract older women voters —Labour’s success in closing the ‘gender gap’ – the historic tendency of women to favour the Conservatives – was crucial to our three general election victories after 1997. In stark contrast to Labour’s achievements in...