The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already existing gender inequalities with substantial implications on women. With the closure of offices and educational institutions, and the emerging norm of work from home and online education, along with the lack of services of domestic worker, the need to perform unpaid chores in the household has increased. Simultaneously, […]
Can you assist by making a submission on COVID-19 and women’s leadership? Women and girls are differentially and often disproportionately impacted by crises, including health emergencies, armed conflict, and climate disasters. Despite their relative social and economic disadvantage, history reflects that they are resilient and have great potential for transformative change at the household, community, […]
Periods don’t pause for pandemics, so in this blog Dr. Jennifer S. Martin and Victoria Heaney explain the connections between menstruation and COVID-19. They also celebrate their latest policy win – the Scottish Parliament Bill to ensure items such as tampons and sanitary pads are available for free to all people that menstruate. A piece […]
This International Migrants Day, Stefanie Machado and Julia Smith – of the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity and Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University – explore how measures to tackle COVID-19 have impacted migrant women in Canada. While only a minority of Canadians have experienced COVID-19 transmission, we are all experiencing […]
The notable gendered socioeconomic, health, and human rights implications of COVID-19 have sparked a renewed conversation on gender data gaps and the risks of gender-blind responses that ignore structural determinants of health and undermine social justice goals.1 Higher mortality among men, disproportionate social, economic, and health effects on ethnic and racial minorities, high infection rates […]
This report is about gender norms – the implicit informal rules about appropriate behaviour for people of different genders – that most people accept and follow. It is about the ways in which gender equality, women’s and girls’ rights and the norms that shape the ability to claim those rights, have progressed over time. It […]
Roughly one in every nine people in the UK are in insecure work, including zero hours contracts, agency working, short term contracts and some forms of self-employment. Many industry sectors dominated by women have significantly higher rates of insecure work, such as the adult social care sector in which 24% of workers on zero hours […]
The Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation on women and girls in emergencies is the first humanitarian system-wide evaluation on women and girls, exploring 10 country case studies, with in-depth analysis in four: Bangladesh, Colombia, Iraq and Nigeria. It has found that there has been notable progress, and that technical gender expertise is a critical success factor in […]
This guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalised girls. It considers four dimensions of school closures, highlighted in the diagram below, covering learning; health, […]
This year, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence comes at a time when there is unprecedented global attention on violence against women and children (VAW/C). The theme of “Fund, Respond, Prevent and Collect!” puts a focus on the need for increased financing to support survivors and prevent future violence, as well as the […]
We meet online every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and public health emergencies.
We meet online every month to discuss key issues, activities, opportunities and ideas for collaboration. We have a long and growing list of resources on gender and public health emergencies.
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