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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021

September 24, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. Women have not recovered lost jobs and income, hunger is on the rise, and school closures threaten girls’ educational gains. Women’s participation in government, research, and resource management remains far from equal. Vulnerable groups of women, including migrants, those with disabilities, […]

Bringing in the Gender and Rural Perspective to Dealing with Covid 19

August 23, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Bringing in the Gender and Rural Perspective to Dealing with Covid 19 The suggestions – maintain social distancing, stay-at-home and be responsible quickly turned to a full country lockdown with a notice of 4 hours by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 24th of March, 2020. While a government enforced directive was of grave importance […]

Seizing the Generation Equality moment: An equitable recovery must leave no women behind

June 22, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The first session of the Generation Equality Forum, held in Mexico City this past March, marks the anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25). Through the forum, governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations and others are working to advance global gender equality, […]

Sex disparities in COVID-19 mortality vary across US racial groups

June 16, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Background Inequities in COVID-19 outcomes in the USA have been clearly documented for sex and race: men are dying at higher rates than women, and Black individuals are dying at higher rates than white individuals. Unexplored, however, is how sex and race interact in COVID-19 outcomes. Objective Use available data to characterize COVID-19 mortality rates […]

Sixty-day consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: an electronic health records study

June 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Data on patients discharged following COVID-19 hospitalization is scarce. We conducted an electronic health records study of community-acquired COVID-19 patients discharged between 15 March and 14 July 2020 from hospitals in Oxfordshire, UK. Of 403 discharged patients, 114 (28%) were readmitted or died within 60 days (incidence rate 18/100 person-months). Rates of readmission or death were […]

How to talk about COVID-19 in Africa

March 23, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

To ask why COVID-19 hasn’t been deadlier in Africa is to suggest that more Africans should be dying. We need better questions… Nyabola, N. (2020, October 21). How to talk about COVID-19 in Africa. Boston Review.

COVID-19 and Gender Research in LMICs - October-December 2020 Quarterly Review Report

COVID-19 and gender research in low and middle-income countries

March 22, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

A literature review of the intersections of COVID-19 and gender in low and middle-income countries. We reviewed more than 300 peer-reviewed and pre-print articles, working papers, reports, and briefs to understand what research did (and did not) focus on in terms of women and girl’s health, gender norms and gendered social outcomes, economic impacts, women’s […]

Gender, COVID-19 and menstrual hygiene

March 17, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Globally, over 800 million women, girls, transgender and gender non-binary persons are menstruating while simultaneously coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, menstrual health and hygiene, and its management, is both a taboo subject and a widely unmet need. Infrastructural, attitudinal, and societal barriers to safe and dignified menstrual hygiene management (MHM) frequently lead to […]

To return or stay? The gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers in China

March 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

This paper examines the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Chinese migrants who had returned to their hometowns for the Spring Festival before the Wuhan lockdown, using data from a recent nationally representative survey. The study finds that women migrants were less likely than men migrants to return to the cities and also […]

Pushed to the margins and stretched to the limit: Experiences of freelance eldercare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

March 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Eldercare professionals engaged in precarious work in the Netherlands faced shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE), testing, and staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative study of the health, financial situations, and paid and unpaid caring responsibilities of freelance eldercare workers illustrates how labor market inequalities have been (re)produced and exacerbated during the pandemic. Freelancers […]

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