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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 […]
Towards a gendered recovery in the European Union: Women and equality in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had multi-layered socioeconomic effects on women and girls. Women have faced a surge in gender-based violence, exacerbated by confinement, overcrowding and socioeconomic insecurity. During lock-downs, women who carried out essential tasks, such as nurses, midwives, cleaners, and carers had to be at the forefront risking their health and safety, while […]
Gender and economic recovery in Scotland
The economic downturn precipitated by Covid-19 is different from that caused by previous shocks. It is likely to have a particularly harsh impact on hospitality, retail, and care sectors that are female-dominated and dominated by Black and minority ethnic workers. At the same time, services that enable women, and especially disabled women’s, labour market participation, […]
Gender and unpaid work: The impact of COVID-19 on the caring roles of women in Scotland
The division of work between women and men is, and has long been, profoundly gendered. Women’s access to paid work, leisure time and power remains heavily constrained by traditional social roles as carers and mothers even as they have increasingly entered and remained in the labour market. The response to Covid-19 has seen a significant […]
Elevating gender equality in COVID-19 economic recovery
Studies around the world are revealing differential and disproportionate socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women arising from the compounding effects of many complex factors. To contribute to the discourse and influence key decision-making, FP Analytics has synthesized evidence of the devastating gendered effects of the pandemic and current government responses, and provides recommendations […]
Gender and social protection in the COVID-19 economic recovery: Opportunities and challenges
This paper analyses the potential contribution of social protection to a gender-transformative economic recovery over the medium term, defined as running from the present to the end of 2022. It builds on the existing Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19 Expert (SPACE) advice publication; SPACE Social Protection in the COVID-19 Recovery: Opportunities and Challenges. Over the […]
Have social protection responses to Covid-19 undermined or supported gender equality?
Key Messages: Holmes, R., & Hunt, A. (2021). Have social protection responses to Covid-19 undermined or supported gender equality? Emerging lessons from a gender perspective. ODI.
COVID-19 Feminist Recovery Plan
This report by the Women’s Policy Group Northern Ireland analyses the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls in Northern Ireland in terms of economic justice, health, social justice and cultural inequality. In addition to this, implications of Brexit and the need for a Bill of Rights will be examined and an analysis of international […]
Women in a COVID-19 recession: Employment, job loss and wage inequality in Canada
Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is evident that the pandemic is not only a global health crisis but is also causing a global economic recession that is exacerbating pre-existing gender inequalities. This brief analyzes how the pandemic’s economic effects impact women workers and the repercussions for gender equality in the Canadian economy. […]