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📈rising domestic violence
⚠️gendered impact of austerity, Brexit, the pandemic
💷pension inequality
💼pay gap
⚖️low rape conviction
👶🏽double burden
🌎frontlines of climate chaos worldwide

We asked the leadership candidates about the issues facing women
👉🏼women.greenparty.org.uk/2020/08/05/hus… Image
Domestic violence and domestic murders are a global & national emergency🚨

Due to systemic sexism, often little is done.

It is getting worse: the rate of men beating and killing women they know reached a five-year high in 2019.

This tripled in the lockdown.

Our 1st question👇🏽 Image
➡️Question 2⬅️

Victims' Commissioner Vera Baird has warned of a collapse in rape prosecutions that has allowed many offenders to escape justice and led to an effective 'decriminalisation of rape'.

How can we reverse this?

Read candidate answers here
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Question 3: Triple Whammy🇪🇺💷😷

The last 10 years have seen a quick succession of social and economic crises: austerity, Brexit, the pandemic.

These have all had a disportionate impact on women.

We asked candidates how they could tackle this.

Answers➡️women.greenparty.org.uk/2020/08/03/ans… Image
Our 4th question concerns domestic workers🧕🏾👩👩🏽‍🦱

Most are women of colour

Already amongst the most low-paid & precarious jobs in the world, more than 70% were affected by the pandemic.

How can we address their needs?

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Answers 👉🏽women.greenparty.org.uk/2020/08/03/que… Image
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