Minority ethnic women in the North of England face a lifetime of inequalities that stretch from childhood and maternity care to employment, mental health and later life, according to a new report co-led by a former WRI team member.
The report, ‘Woman of the North: Closing the health gap for minority ethnic women’ , published by Health Equity North, found that racial discrimination, poverty and regional underinvestment combine to produce significantly worse outcomes in the North than elsewhere in England, while major gaps in data continue to conceal the full scale of the problem.
Co-led by Dr Oluwaseun Esan, University of Liverpool, and Dr Nasima Akhter, Teesside University (formerley Wolfson Stats team), alongside over 50 other contributors (includng Wolfson Fellow Michelle Addison) – the vast majority of whom are minority ethnic women themselves – the report shows that poor data and limited research obscure how ethnicity, gender and place shape lives.
The full article and report can be found here - https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/10/07/hidden-inequalities-facing-minority-ethnic-women-in-the-north-exposed/
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