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The gendered nature of public debt

Aberlour Children’s Charity’s research and evidence base has shown that public debt disproportionately impacts women. Public debt reform is vital to tackling women’s poverty, and in turn child poverty. 

Coerced public debt is a common issue for victim-survivors of domestic abuse, trapping them and their children in abusive relationships and inhibiting their recovery.

Read more about our work on the gendered nature of public debt: