Ms Miriam Holt:

Absolutely. We agree with what has been said about care. Care responsibilities have always been a barrier and still continue to be. We have not figured out childcare yet. In our experience, the majority of people trying to access education and leadership roles are women who have children.

A universal basic income would be a start. I totally agree with what Ms Coyle says about how we frame social welfare and how people are made to feel about being on social welfare. In our experience, women are constantly trying to protect that payment. What we need to provide is as many supports for participation as we can. That is what we look to do in terms of how we support women, both in education and in progression and leadership roles. We provide holistic supports.

We do provide buddy systems. We do a lot more than just put on a programme because we know that for women to participate fully there is a whole other structure behind that, which is not funded, but that we do anyway because that is what we do.