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Monitoring the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses on women in the UK

January 21, 2022 No Commentsmaggie

A compilation of policy analyses by the Women’s Budget Group on the economic impact of COVID-19 on women in the UK. Women’s Budget Group. (n.d). COVID-19.

Gender and economic recovery in Scotland

July 19, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

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 social protection in the COVID-19 economic recovery: Opportunities and challenges

July 8, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

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 […]

How does the State plan to protect its poor?

June 16, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The podcast series draws on findings from a research programme called Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA), a multi-country research initiative hosted by the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. The podcasts in this series will explore areas of women’s collective action, changing civic spaces, and donor programmes to support empowerment and accountability. What does social protection […]

Women losing out under furlough scheme

June 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The UK government’s furlough scheme may not be doing enough to address the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis on women, according to new analysis. The research, by the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London, looked at experiences of furlough during the early months of the pandemic, between April and July 2020. […]

Women’s financial resiliency as it relates to COVID-19

March 23, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Materials crowd-sourced from the FinEquity community on the issue of women’s financial resiliency as it relates to COVID-19 (or other serious crises). FinDev Gateway. (2020). Women’s financial resiliency as it relates to COVID-19.

Don’t let another crisis go to waste: The COVID-19 pandemic and the imperative for a paradigm shift

March 16, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how globalized, market-based economies critically depend on a foundation of nonmarket goods, services, and productive activities that interact with capitalist institutions and impact market economies. These findings, long argued by feminist economists, have profound implications for how we think about our economic futures. This paper shows how lessons from the ongoing […]

Coronavirus fiscal policy in the United States: Lessons from feminist political economy

March 16, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Using the United States’ fiscal response to COVID-19 in March and April 2020 as a case study, this paper explores the implications the US coronavirus legislation had for the societal distribution of responsibility for social reproduction among US households, employers, and the federal government – and the legislation’s effect on women and racialized minorities. It […]

Working and caring at home: Gender differences in the effects of Covid-19 on paid and unpaid labor in Australia

March 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The COVID-19 pandemic caused working from home to spike abruptly, creating a unique spatial organization of paid and unpaid work that was not so different for women and men. This paper reports early results from a survey of Australian men and women, conducted during state-imposed lockdown in May 2020, on how the pandemic affected paid […]

Transformations in the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from Turkey

March 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

This paper uses a unique survey conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey to analyze men’s and women’s time use under lockdown. The study finds that while men’s participation in unpaid work increased, particularly for men who switched to working from home, the relative increase for women further widened the gender gap in unpaid work. […]

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