The UK women dealing with a cost of living crisis 

People running these charities and food banks are the real heroes of our age.

It is very hard to live in the UK on one income per household no matter if you are male or female.

Single people find it hard too. It’s not easy having a lot of roommates

I'm a single woman in Ireland housesharing. I was paying the same for a single room as my friends(that are a couple) are paying for a mortgage together on a house. I was house sharing with 3 other people. The housemates ages were 50, 46, 32 and 30. None of us wanted to houseshare.

As a divorced father with 50:50 childcare I feel it as much as any of my female friends. Why do we have to seek out diversity or inclusivity issues within an issue that’s already a nightmare

It's hard for everyone not just single mothers... what about single people with no kids???? No government department is responsible for housing you...at least single mothers have to be housed by law.... I'm a single woman working every shift I can... only to see most of it go on private sector rental!!!! No subsidised housing for me!!Lots of my colleagues are working full time and having to flat share, some are in their forties! It's hard for everyone.

It's difficult for men as well. Many people are struggling with high costs. Male and Female.

It’s okay. King Charles will have his multimillion pound coronation. No poverty here.

It's harder for everyone. It's all around us.

"A good 70% goes straight to my rent." That's brutal!

Watching from Australia, fellow single parent. Thankyou. Stay strong everyone.

As a single father of 3 I beg to differ

I grew up in a single mother house, we were always poor, for years and years. Nothings changed.

Why aren’t these men that fathered these kids and are not contributing being forced to help pay for them? I have new understood why the UK has never made them financially accountable for their responsibilities. It’s always left to the mothers and tax payers to foot the bill.

I have found the cost of utility bills crippling and trying to run a car. The government should be doing more to help people. The other issue is that prices will never fall, so we are all waiting for wages to catch up.

Inflation hits people a lot harder than a crashing stock or housing market as it directly affects people's cost of living that people immediately feel the impact of. It's not surprising negative market sentiment is so high now. We really need help to survive in this Economy.

Where are the men responsible for the children they helped create?

A new Charles Dickens is in the making!!

Unfortunately our system does not make it financially viable to be in a relationship either. This is why, though I'm not married, have no children of my own, I have my own home, own car and full time job, no women are interested in having a relationship. This is because though they get little benefits as single parents, they would get even less if they got into a relationship. I know plenty of local single mums that as much as they are currently struggling financially, they openly say they will never enter a relationship because of the money they would loose. I know some single mums locally that though they struggle financially, they still get more money's worth in welfare and then other benefits such as housing benefit, council tax discount etc combined than what I get as a wage working full time for £28k per year but then have to pay full everything like mortgage. Working does not pay enough in many cases and so people are trapped into a life of benefits to start with. An example of this is £28k per year in my northern town is a high wage but after all my bills I can't afford many luxuries and yet the woman who lives next door to myself that doesn't work has at least two foreign holidays per year and a top of the range BMW.

I think its disgusting how people who live in this country are treated soo badly and have to use food banks just to get by yet this issue has been going on for years and as time goes by it only seems to be getting worse yet not mentioned much in the government announcements I feel are voices are not being listen to or heard and i think it's disgusting

im from europe, my mother was single mom of 3, never got any help from our father, she worked 3 different jobs to pay for everything and feed us. but never i remember her complaining even we were very poor.

Single full time Father in the same boat. Its not exclusively women.

Don't have kids. Why would you want to bring another sufferer into this world? You can plainly see how hard life is. This is child abuse.

It's affected women and children the most because their fathers all went out for a pint of milk and never came back

After my divorce the judge ordered we go 50-50 on the house.. He gave her the inside.. I got the outside.

Find all those absent fathers and sue them into the ground.

Takeaway from this video: Don't have kids ladies, stay single and childfree and you'll be alright financially. Don't give any man the opportunity to leave you holding the baby! Studies show that marriage makes men happier and women less happy.

The problem is people being vastly uneducated on the effect having children has on you financially and how it effects future opportunities

The price of period products has gone up soooo much. Mine has gone up by £3 per pack. It’s not like food which you can just skip or not purchase.

The wording of the title makes it seem as if inflation is gendered and mainly discriminates women, rather it's just that more women are victims of a pain that is equal to all of us. It's harder for everyone.

I know several female single parents who works full time just like me but get more money than me every month by a significant degree via benefits. The cost of living crisis has nothing to do with sexism. It's to do with governmentel greed and corruption.

Of course they know that when youre tired, stressed, with most of your energy going into economic survival, then you dont have enough to fight the real cause of your demise - the economic elites, and corporations. So if you want real change, be prepared to help each other achieve that real change. Help your neighbour, then help the world.

Before May 2010, there were only a few dozen food banks in whole of UK. Now, in April 2023, there are thousands upon thousands. Welcome to Tory Britain - ghastly, isn't it? You know what to do. 😐

Form a solid married relationship before having kids, rather than taking the kids away from the fathers and complaining they don’t have an income and have to rely on the taxpayers.

i would argue it's harder for men, because generally when people become homeless, women are much more likely to find shelter or social housing

Big respect to hull sisters charity. Hull sisters charity are angels . The Tories government need to give people the respect and dignity they deserve. Stop treating people like second class citizens

It effects everyone. Not just women.

Ladies, life is not easy. Praying for you all. Try and invest in yourself. Educate yourself and always be careful which husband/partner you choose.

These girl bosses need to step up

Strong and independent life when economy in a down turn

Single mothers... Father less children... Broken social system... That's why the family system is for support eachother in the bad time... Welcome to the new world...

The question nobody asks……..”Why aren’t the fathers contributing to THEIR Children “!!!!!!!!

90% of men work to provide for a woman and their family. My wife currently looks after the baby while I work full time......due to seeing costs going up I got an additional weekend night security job on Fridays and Saturdays around six months ago. Its definitely impacted me more.

Absolutely not. I am male and had to sell my car to pay the gas bill. What a mess the UK is in.

I don't feel sorry for single mums they need to feel the pain of not having a husband cause apparently they don't need men well stop complaining then

I did not no that if your a man your exempt from inflation so I need a refund on my car my mortgage my food my gas electric nobody told me it was just woman affected

Where i live in south London. i only know one married couple the rest are single mothers. They pick the wrong men 😂😂

*85%* of the homeless are men. 00:16 _”Women most affected”_ 😂

Really?! You are interviewing people from other countries who choose to live in the UK and have another country to go to when things get bad. What about the locals.

Conclusions From The First Half: 1.Soup costs more for women than for men. 2 Ethnic minority women pay the highest soup prices of all. 3. These are MY children. I'm independent. I stand in my power! 4. Can I please have some free money though? 5. A full tank of fuel now lasts a week, whereas it used to last a whole month. Because of the economy. 6. I'm reminded why I ditched television 20 years ago... It is suitable only for people with papier maché brains.

Thanks to god my kids are older and they start to work but I fell so sorry for new mother

Female, single mum, yes times are hard but I'm not waiting or hoping for any improvement. I grow my own food and herbs, I can fish. I'm not above shooting rabbits with an air rifle either if need be. The government is not going to help you. Single men are struggling, couples are struggling. Everyone who is not rich is struggling. Times are going to get harder. It's time to improvise, make alternative plans for how you feed your families. It has been time to do this since the plandemic. Bottom line, if you rely on the government to sort this out, you're going hungry.

Women tend to be single mums? It's also usually women who initiate divorce. Getting a bit tired of the man-hating these days.

Women wanted to be independent. Congratulations. Choices have consequences.

This evening BBC Newsline featured the pressures women in N. Ireland are under owing to the higher cost of living; one young woman, Nuala Fitzpatrick, mother of a 1 yr old, spoke out re how she and her child were affected. I am surely not alone in asking why she had the child, and what the male with whom she had congress contributes to it's welfare.

The people of the uk are broken. We use terms like family for one women and a child, a family consist of man woman and child any thing else could be consider just a “survival unit”. We have forgotten how to function as a unit.

nice to finally see people bming these topics in the comments. EVERYONE is fucked right now. not just women, not just pensioners, not young people, no immigrates. Just stop with the titles of sub groups, its everyone that is getting shafted but big business

So true. We are all working to pay food shelter and bills. There’s nothing left for anything else.

"Why record inflation is harder for women", where do I even start with this. Inflation doesn't just single out one gender. Both the title and all the sources appear to be biased in just trying to prove one's point, you can spin the data however you want but the truth is that it's hard on us all; men and women. "90% of all single parent households are ran by women", that seems an unusually high percentage of mothers that have custody of their children. Could 90% of the men really be that bad whereby the woman has to divorce the man, take the child and try to make ends meet whilst working a 0 hour contract in the middle of a cost of living crisis rather than making it work in the family they started, and being better off all round? Single man or single woman, of course you're going to be paid less and struggling working a 0 hour contract as a nurse supporting 1+ children in the middle of a cost of living crisis with inflation being at a 40 year high.

There appears to be a lot of feckless fathers about, not saying the women don't do a bunk but the majority who go out for a paper and never return are often men !! I do understand we have relationship breakdowns etc and deaths of course, but its always the women who take the majority of the financial pain.

I claim universal credit and have to visit a food bank but i do have enough left over to get my nails and lashes done 😮

Ethnic minority's are always whingeing....it's hard for everyone not just you.....

I'm confused, I thought they were strong and independent

It affects everyone - you only have to look at the majority of people sleeping on the streets; they are men.

The woman who saying that she needs to fetch her child at 6 o’clock and so she can’t work, What about the other hours of the day though? Could you just work like a normal 9 to 5 job and then still fetch the child at 6 o’clock?

At first glance I thought she was using Aldi Norpak...but it's Lurpak!! Seriously that makes a mockery of everything she is saying, oh and the car, she just needs a little smart car, or something second hand!! 6:43

What about the men? We get ignored all the time. The cost of living crisis has affected everyone.

And almost a year later, and nothing has improved - if anything, it's getting far worse. I will say this much, if this continues, people will eventually have nothing left to lose and will have no qualms about turning on those responsible.

Here's a tip: don't get children. It's not a right to have children. If you can't provide then don't be so selfish to get them anyway.

Even me as a single man struggling, paying food for a week costs an arm and a leg

Oh my I feel so sad to see this. I am a very lucky person, never had to worry about food poverty or rely on charity. Thank goodness the help is available for women, good on the charities 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Unfair World 😞

Grew up poor Mum was a single parent, Dad had affairs, and refused to pay, in fact he gave up his job and got paid cash in hand. People on here living in luxury compared to what we had, no toys, no car, hardly any food, and clothes handmade. No food banks back then.

My view from the US is that I’m seeing people piling on with blame like it’s some big moral failing to work full time-and with kids! Who are supposedly our future-and not be getting by. Meanwhile, this week, the CEO of Nvidia made $6B+ in one day, on the hopes their chips will power future AI…which will be throwing even more of these folks out of their jobs.

if a man loses his full time job hes more likely to be divorced even if he works part time. women have the choice to stay at home

women conveniently forget how they did fight to always get custody

Aldi period pads are 59p. Wilko sell their cheapest brand period pads for 30p last time i checked

Tory Britain 😢 My heart goes out to these resilient women ❤

As a women yes ive seen the pay gap is very real but thats nothing to do with the cost of living. Cost of living effects everyone the same

I’m sorry but this is not true. Mothers get more money from government than men. You can’t just make stuff like this up

Number of rough sleepers on a single night in England 2017-2022, by gender. In 2022 there were reported to be 2,539 men sleeping rough on a single night in England, and 464 women. Between 2017 and 2022 the majority of rough sleepers reported in England have been males.30 mars 2023.

This is not poverty in any way live as I did as a child homeless and hungry . Often my Mother and her 4 children slept in bus shelters and the local graveyard. There was no benefit system like today or food banks to help. All these family's have homes, many cars and in there homes they have what I call luxurious items. Look behind the people been interviewed at there belongings in there homes. They don't live on porridge made with water and plain spaghetti every meal as I did when young. They need to live on reduced yellow item sticker food supermarkets are full of cheap food if you shop late as I do.

Stop ✋️ too much poverty and too many kids. Where are those fathers??? 😮

Calling a cost of living crisis sexist is ludicrous and a sign of non-accountibilty

Nowadays there are so many people to try surviving with their finances. My advice is: don't try surviving, live your life finding the sense of life and pray for God to bless you, for sure, you'll be happier❤

Single fathers average around 20k more than single mothers in the United States. This system is set of for couples. Most people choose to be single parents and often don’t think about recessions and inflation…….. maybe people should think of those things because life is going to life if you plan well or not.

The woman on 12.50 an hour doing 3 12 hour shifts a week earns more than someone doing 40 hours a week on national living wage. If £1800 before tax only covers your basic needs. That's surely living beyond your means.

The tax payer in the UK is doomed 🤦‍♂️

Since when did a bill for whatever care if you're a man or woman.

Channel 4 is high as a kite on Cultural Marxism

Keep Calm and Manage.

They own more stuff at home at me as a worker:(

*People have forgotten that we need each others.*

Austerity by the tories started alot of this off......

Yes. Women & Children always get affected. Why? Because of Lack of Empathy they give to these people.

Yes is it so expensive over two years. Living cost affected a lot people in UK.

Women in the USA, UK and Australia are suffering the most as the jobs they use to do have all been outsourced or replaced with AI.

*I respect women. I just want to state that. I never go one day without respecting women.*

The question no one is asking - WHY did you have kids that you obviously can't afford? She isn't a victim. Just thinks that she deserves kids because she wants them and they're cute.

It takes two parents to financially raise children. It is called responsibility. Single parents need support.

Family is very important…it takes two parents to take care of a family…single parenthood is a pathway to poverty and destruction…