I read a post on Instagram a few days ago from one of the girls who owns a salon where I get my brows done which explained how the lockdown easement is one entirely based around the wants and needs of men, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it (1)

Pubs, barbers and footie back on.... no salons opening for women to access beauty treatments (all highly sterile environments with limited people in a building at once). Sports teams getting tested for matches yet teachers (3/4 of whom are women) aren’t being offered the same (2)

Pregnant women are having to deal with going to scans alone even now despite being able to meet up and go to a cinema. People were going to the shop unlimited times a week or going to work (3)

Because the Government allowed businesses to drag workers back prematurely if “it was not possible to work from home”... where was this leniency for women who were forced to go through child birth with no loved ones around? (4)

I can’t find any info regarding the representation of women in the group of people who have devised the UK’s Covid-19 Recovery Plan, but I’d be hella interested to see how many women were present and how much of a voice they had in influencing decisions.