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Bleeding in healthcare settings: Why healthcare workers menstrual health must be addressed

May 28, 2024 No CommentsHayley StewardEditorial

On the 28th of May, we celebrate ten years of Menstrual Hygiene Day. It is a time to reflect on the success of the movement, as well as galvanise action for this still largely neglected and under-funded area of sexual and reproductive health, rights and bodily autonomy. In 2022, the 50th session of the Human Rights […]

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A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery: Increased precarity of women hotel workers in British Columbia

January 30, 2024 No CommentsHayley Steward

This report documents the experiences of women hotel workers—a group of women who have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but rarely represented in media, research or policy debates. It draws on focus groups and interviews with 27 women hotel workers in B.C. Canada, the majority of whom are immigrant and racialized women. Their […]

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.

Food systems, diets and nutrition in the wake of COVID-19

July 19, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting food and nutrition security through economic and social systems shocks, food system disruptions and gaps in coverage of essential health and nutrition services. Food systems in low- and middle-income countries must adapt and strengthen food and nutrition security in the wake of COVID-19… Carducci, B., Keats, E. C., Ruel, M., […]

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 […]

Have social protection responses to Covid-19 undermined or supported gender equality?

July 8, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

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.

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.

Human mobility, COVID-19, and policy responses: The rights and claims-making of migrant domestic workers

March 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

This article aims to explore policy responses to the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis, with a particular focus on disparate outcomes for international migrant domestic workers (MDWs). Through an analysis of interviews conducted with health and humanitarian organizations and experts in key migration corridors, it surfaces the central role that MDWs play in social […]

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