Ethnic minority women in Coventry

A local report looking at how spending cuts are affecting black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women in Coventry — an area where one third of the population is BAME — found they are likely to be disproportionately affected by cuts to benefits, jobs and services.

“What shocked me was how big the difference and far reaching the impacts are. In Coventry, for example, unemployment among BAME women increased by 74.4% between 2009 and 2013,” said one of the report authors Kindy Sandhu. For white women the increase was 30.5%.

The government’s work programme has been particularly unsuccessful for BAME women. Up to July 2012, only 10 out of 210 Asian women referred found work. And out of 280 referrals of women from other ethnic groups, none found work.

www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/chrp/projects/humanrightsimpactassessments/women/executive_summary_final.pdf