Food poverty

• Has the pandemic meant that we will treat our key workers more fairly in the future?
• In 2020 we discovered who we really can't function without  – will this mean we treat people in 'essential jobs' more fairly in future?

This mission theme is focused on the future of work, with a strong link to key title in the SocietyNow series A World Beyond Work publishing January, and with the opportunity of approaching the authors of upcoming series on the Future of Work approach for blogs/think pieces. Topics to include: four-day week, UBI, the end of the commute, remote working, minimum wage, zero hours contracts, work precarity

• Why are women an afterthought when setting policy?
• Will it always fall to women to be the primary carer?
• Why does it seem that countries led by women have done better during the pandemic than those led by men?
• Why did it take so long for implications for women and domestic violence under lockdown to be appreciated?

This mission theme links to the Editorial Calendar 'Social Vaccine' campaign and is focussed on how being male or female has determined the experience of the pandemic and its after effects. Encompasses topics connected with inequities around work and childcare responsibilities, domestic violence.

• What happened to that early rhetoric about Covid being a great 'leveller'?

We can now superimpose a map showing most heavily affected Covid regions over map of showing the country's poorest (and BAME) communities. Linked to the editorial calendar 'Social vaccine campaign' and with strong links to Tracy Shildrick's SocietyNow book publication Poverty in Britain. Cross over with the Healthy Lives mission around health inequalities. Sub themes around science and health communication and the BAME community; minimum wage; poor housing conditions, precarity