Lucinda Platt and Alita Nandi have received £45k in funding from the Government Equalities Office for a project looking at ethnic minority women’s economic well being.
The four month project will research ethnic inequalities in women’s incomes and poverty risks, and the contribution of ethnic and gender inequalities to child poverty. The researchers will be using pooled waves of the Family Resources Survey.
The team believe that economic inequalities faced by ethnic minority women have not been not much researched or discussed so are delighted that this project has been funded.
Lucinda Platt said:
“Documenting and understanding inequalities is an important policy concern, as is recognised for example in the Equality Bill, currently going through Parliament, and the work of the National Equality Panel(NEP). Addressing inequalities between men and women and between ethnic groups is important for ensuring a more equal society, but inequality in incomes can also impact on others, such as children. This research is intended to show how ethnic and gender inequality can matter for child poverty.”