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Canada	Access to Resources	Labour/Roles	Norms/Beliefs	Power	Institutions/ Laws
Risk	Lack of access to housing means 20% Indigenous people live in overcrowding; can't isolate	1/10 COVID cases in Ontario among heathcare workers; 81% healthcare workers women	More women (47%) than men (32%) extremely worried about COVID-19	Indigenous and racial minorities over represented in prisons; can't social distance	Temporary foreign workers working part-time or between contracts, & those who are undocumented do not have free access to healthcare
Illness/ Treatment	For newcomers without access to free medical care COVID testing and treatment is costly	Over 80% of workers in accomodation and food industry (which is 80% women) don't have access to paid sick leave	More women than men concerned about becoming sick due to COVID-19	Undocumented migrants scared to seek testing and treatment	Canada does not collect public health data based on race; obscuring evidence of racial inequities
Health Systems/ Services	Children in low income families - most often headed by women - less likely to have access to internet for online schooling	Healthcare workers face PTSD, mental health challenges due to stress of responding to COVID-19	Fear and mistrust of health systems expressed by many in Black, Indigenous and racialized communities	Majority of Chief Medical Officers and high profile leaders in COVID-19 response are women	Indigenous Peoples lack access to family doctors, medical services, compared to non-Indigenous peoples
Social Impacts	Children in low income families - most often headed by women - less likely to have access to internet for online schooling	Women spend nearly double the time performing unpaid care work than men; COVID-19 increases this care burden	Rise in anti-asian racism	Gender equity organizations experiancing staff and funding shortfalls	Rise in overdose deaths amid COVID-19 outbreak
Economic Impacts	Less (63%) women than men (80%) in Vancouver managed to pay rent in March 2020	Women among the most hit by COVID-19 job losses: among 25 to 54, the rate of decline twice that of men.	42% of youth (15-24) fear losing their job/income due to COVID-19	Sex workers economically vulnerable due to COVID impacts on trade	Services to help newcomers find jobs closed
Security Impacts	Women's shelters to face food insecurity	Care workers in seniors residences targeted by racism, exploitation	Racialized people impacted disporportionately by use of force to enforce social distancing	Calls to Vancouver domestic-violence crisis line spike 300% amid COVID-19 pandemic	88% women's service providers surveyed are concerned about COVID's impact on their capacity to deliver services

Gender Working Group

We meet online on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities, and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and COVID-19.

Canada

Gender Working Group

We meet online on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities, and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and COVID-19.

Gender Working Group

We meet online on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities, and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and COVID-19.

Canada

Gender Working Group

We meet online on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities, and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and COVID-19.