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Women with disabilities in India: Access to COVID-19 vaccination

June 22, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

India has been coping with an overwhelmingly alarming second wave of the COVID-19 virus. The situation remains very distressing for citizens and frontline workers alike. Overburdened with patients, the healthcare system has collapsed. Many hospitals ran out of oxygen and critical drugs, as well as available beds. Cases peaked at around 400,000 new cases daily […]

Climate zine: feminist journeys

September 16, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

The Covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis have a disproportionate impact on people living in poverty, and both are increasing inequality. As we look for ways to fight back, this new zine offers reflection on feminist approaches around the world. What can we learn from young peoples’ leadership? How can we value and integrate Indigenous […]

COVID-19 mortality: A complex interplay of sex, gender, and ethnicity

August 4, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Several studies have reported a higher rate of COVID-19 mortality in men compared with women. A higher rate of COVID-19 mortality has also been reported in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups, compared with White ethnicity, especially among healthcare providers. While some studies attempted to examine if existing disparities could be explained by socioeconomic […]

Axes of alienation: applying an intersectional lens on the social contract during the pandemic response to protect sexual and reproductive rights and health

July 31, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

While economic inequalities have been a key focus of attention through the COVID 19 pandemic, gendered relations of power at every level have undermined health rights of women, girls and gender diverse individuals. Sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) have always been sites of power contestations within families, societies, cultures, and politics; these struggles are […]

BAME women and COVID-19

July 31, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Women’s’ Budget Group along with Fawcett Society, London School of Economics and Queen Mary University London conducted polling to explore the impact coronavirus is having on Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people and in particular women. Women’s Budget Group. (2020). BAME women and COVID-19.

Disabled women and COVID-19

July 31, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Latest briefing by Women’s Budget Group. Fawcett Society, London School of Economics and Queen Mary University London shows that during lockdown a shocking six in ten disabled women are struggling to access necessities from the shops (63%), compared with 46% of non-disabled men 52% of non-disabled women. Six in ten disabled women also fear missing […]

seX & whY episode 14, part 1- COVID-19 through a gender-based lens

seX & whY episode 14: COVID-19 through a gender-based lens

July 25, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Host: Jeannette Wolfe Guests: Dr Gary Barker CEO of Promundo- an organization that promotes healthy masculinity and gender equality; Dr Stephen Burrell Assistant Professor in the Dept of Sociology at Durham University – whose area of focus in on engaging men and boys in the prevention of violence against women. Today’s podcast features the first part of our […]

Intersectionality as a lens to the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for sexual and reproductive health in development and humanitarian contexts

July 25, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Millions of people have now been infected with COVID-19, with numbers increasing daily. As countries have implemented social distancing, quarantine and other community containment measures to limit the spread of the virus, data show higher infection rates and deaths among particular minorities. In the United States, African Americans have been disproportionately affected by the virus, […]