UK-EU: Why the EU emergency brake on migrant benefits is sexist

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"We should heed warnings from the damage caused by changes already implemented before pressing ahead with economically unnecessary proposals that deepen child poverty and homelessness, and push women over a welfare cliff edge.

The emergency brake on in-work benefits creates a sexually asymmetric concept of free movement: women can only enjoy the rights supposedly afforded to all European citizens so long as their bodies do not betray them."


See the full text: Why the EU emergency brake on migrant benefits is sexist (The Conversation, link)

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