Woman of the North Report
The women of the North are our sisters, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, and friends. They raised us, we raise them, we care for them – and they increasingly care for us. They have defined our lives. They also face huge challenges – their health has been neglected, they are more likely to work longer, face greater ill health, be subject to domestic violence and give more unpaid care than men and women in other parts of the country. Woman of the North is a report on inequality. On the increasing inequality that has been faced by women in our region over the past decade and a half. The effects of austerity, the cost-of-living crisis, economic stagnation, the pandemic and unequal funding formulas have all hit women living in the North, on average, harder than those in the rest of the country. We expected those differences to be visible, but just how stark they are is made crystal clear in this report.
This report is a joint piece of work between the Northern Health Science Alliance’s Health Equity North and academics from the Northern NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs; North East and North Cumbria [reference NHIR200173], Greater Manchester [reference NIHR200174], North West Coast [reference NIHR200182], NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre [reference NIHR203309] Yorkshire and Humber [reference NIHR200166] and the NIHR School of Public Health Research [reference PD-SPH-2015].
