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Masculinities and COVID-19- Making the Connections

Masculinities and COVID-19: making the connections

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The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching impacts on every aspect of society in countries across the world, making clear the importance of applying a gendered – and in this case, a masculinities – lens to the pandemic’s impact. Based on critical masculinity theory and an extensive review of publications ranging from newspaper articles to academic […]
COVID-19- A gender-based analysis

COVID-19: A gender-based analysis

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The novel Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is exhibiting catastrophic secondary impacts on women and girls’ health across the world. Particularly, the COVID-19 lockdown has inequitably affected the women due to the pre-existing gender inequalities, which are exacerbating many gender-based disparities within common populations. These include access to resources, access to information, coping capacities and socio-economic impact. […]
Equalities in freefall? Ontological insecurity and the long‐term impact of COVID‐19 in the academy

Equalities in freefall? Ontological insecurity and the long‐term impact of COVID‐19 in the academy

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This intervention focuses on the impact of the global crisis resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic on existing racialized and gendered inequalities within the academy and in particular our discipline of Politics and International Relations. We argue that responses to recent crises within the academy have exacerbated ontological insecurity among minoritized groups, including women. When coupled […]
Violence against women and Girls amidst COVID 19 pandemic– LVCT health experience

Violence against women and girls amidst COVID 19 pandemic – LVCT health experience

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Violence against women and girls/children (VAWG/C) is a major public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights and an impediment to sustainable development. Globally, WHO estimates that about one in three (35%) women of reproductive age have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. Violence […]
Social isolation and loneliness- a hidden killer

Social isolation and loneliness: a hidden killer

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Social isolation and loneliness are risk factors for poor health, and are increasingly affecting younger men. GPs can play an important role in recognising and addressing the problems using the tools and services being developed to help tackle the issues. White A, Taylor T, Cooper R (2020). Social isolation and loneliness: a hidden killer. Trends […]
COVID-19 and Man-flu A curious link

COVID-19 and man-flu: A curious link?

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Exploring how male and female immune systems differ and how this is impacting the course of the COVID-19 crisis As an immunologist my research is focused around trying to unravel the possibilities for a novel signalling system involving two receptors, toll-like receptor 7 & 8, which normally detect harmful RNAs found in viruses, bacteria and […]
COVID and Gender Resource Library.

COVID and gender resource library

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At the start of the pandemic, early analyses and publications already pointed out the gendered inequalities and disparities that Covid 19 would exacerbate and bring to the fore. This resource is a tracking document that consolidating over 500 publications from 77 countries from March until August 2020. The gender-sensitive thematic areas covered include: dignified work, […]
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Where are the women in the COVID-19 pandemic?

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