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Measuring gender-responsive pandemic planning
In the brief, How to Create a Gender-Responsive Pandemic Plan, the Gender and COVID-19 Project propose a framework that readers can employ to outline outcomes, activities, and indicators for each of their objectives related to pandemic preparedness, response, and recovery. The brief emphasizes the importance of the ethical and safe collection and analysis of intersectional, […]

COVID-19’s effects on the healthcare and social assistance workforce in Canada: Gendered employment loss and wage inequality 2020-2021
COVID-19’s effects on the healthcare and social assistance workforce in Canada: Gendered employment loss and wage inequality 2020-2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a significant burden on healthcare and social assistance workers across Canada. Over a year and a half, healthcare and social assistance workers have faced ongoing outbreaks and long term impacts on both […]

Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 in Fragile Settings: A Syndemic Model
The long-standing pandemic of gender-based violence has been worsened by COVID-19 and related containment measures, particularly in fragile settings marked by conflict, poverty, and weak infrastructure. At the same time, the implementation of gender-insensitive COVID-19 control policies can exacerbate the community transmission of COVID-19. These interactions form a syndemic—two or more pandemics whose interactions compound […]

Gender checklist: Ensure your research is gender sensitive
The aim of this checklist is to support researchers in ensuring that their research is gender sensitive, and doesn’t inadvertently perpetuate gender or intersectional inequities. From the initial phase of generating research questions to reporting overall conclusions, this checklist seeks to provide research teams, especially those lacking a background in gender studies, with the tools […]

How has Nigeria responded to the gendered impacts of COVID 19?
Nigeria’s COVID-19 response has been driven by the National COVID-19 Pandemic Multi-Sectoral Response Plan coordinated by the Presidential Task Force/Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 and related bodies at the State level. But has gender been adequately factored into the response? Watch our webinar where we explain how we used our ‘How to create a gender-responsive […]

Gender & COVID-19 Research Agenda Setting in Asia Pacific: Vaccinations
COVID-19 vaccination holds the potential to alleviate the health systems burden, contribute to economic and social recovery, and reverse some of the exacerbated gender inequalities during the pandemic. Yet gender, a known barrier to access and delivery as demonstrated in many other vaccination efforts and health areas, is not well understood, considered, and addressed at […]

To ‘Build Back Better,’ Listen to Women
Read the full article here: To ‘Build Back Better,’ Listen to Women COVID-19 has walloped the world’s women. As the virus spread, women—who are overrepresented in hard-hit industries like food service, hospitality, education and, crucially, health care—found themselves vulnerable, unemployed and without a social safety net, and often neglected by government crisis responses. Closures of businesses […]

Effective, decisive, and inclusive: Women’s leadership in COVID-19 response and recovery
Effective, decisive, and inclusive: Women’s leadership in COVID-19 response and recovery This working paper is part of UN Women’s research efforts to highlight the importance of women’s leadership and participation in decision-making during the pandemic and beyond. The working paper tackles the question of how women leaders at the national and subnational levels of government […]
When schools shut: Gendered impacts of Covid-19 school closures
When schools shut: Gendered impacts of Covid-19 school closures School closures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have caused unprecedented disruption for nearly 1.6 billion learners across the globe. Beyond alarming effects on learning loss and school dropout, they pose an immediate and long-term threat to gender equality, with gender-specific effects on health, well-being and […]