The report examines eight broad areas where spending cuts are likely to have an impact on women. These areas are based on the priorities identified by individual women and women’s voluntary organisations who were consulted during the drafting of the report.

The report concludes that many of the spending cuts will have a disproportionate impact on women. Others will affect both women and men equally but will have a potentially damaging impact on certain groups of women (for example changes to benefits for disabled people which will affect both disabled women and disabled men). Taken together these cuts will lead to greater inequality between women and men in Coventry. For some women the combination of cuts may have a negative impact on their human rights.

The report reflects the potential negative impacts of the cuts on women. It also highlights some areas where public authorities have taken measures to mitigate negative impacts on women (e.g. where Coventry City Council has provided additional funding to replace funding lost from national government).

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