https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-global-health-security-depends-on-women-96861?access_key=GUtlzdreVBZd7pdnQaL6nG2zEvhfonfe
As COVID-19 exposes gaps in the world's pandemic response infrastructure — and challenges our collective social, political, and economic systems — we are faced with an opportunity to tackle the defining issue undermining global health infrastructure: inequality.
#covid-19
#healthcare
#policy
#unpaid work
#data
#women's movements
over 6 years ago
https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/feminist-resources-on-the-pandemic
We will be continually updating this space with new resources.
#covid-19
#resources
over 6 years ago
https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/03/25/two-million-canadians-could-soon-be-out-of-work-and-women-and-low-wage-workers-will-be-hit-the-hardest.html
More than a third of low paid workers risk losing their jobs, compared to only 1% those with high pay, according to a report from the Canadian Centre ...
#business
#canadian economy
#layoffs
#covid-19
#workforce
#economy
#low wage workers
#low income
#unemployment
#gender
over 6 years ago
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1060512
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is pledging support for those suffering from invisible impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including women and girls whose access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health care may be disrupted.
#global perspectives
#human stories
#covid-19
over 6 years ago
https://medium.com/@radha_friedman/will-womens-movements-lead-us-through-covid-19-1ba7c0aa5a1d
If ever there was a time to double down on investing in women and girls, it’s now.
#gender equality
#women
#covid-19
#healthcare
#women-led
#women's movements
over 6 years ago
http://sdg.iisd.org/news/unfpa-highlights-threats-of-covid-19-pandemic-to-women-and-girls/
The brief titled, ‘COVID-19: A Gender Lens,' highlights how a pandemic can heighten domestic violence risk, teenage pregnancy, and the diversion of resources from sexual and reproductive health. The authors also note that women's participation in care work raises their risk of exposure to COVID-19. The technical brief was released by the UN Population Fund on 19 March 2020.
#climate change
#forests
#land
#sdgs
#water
#covid-19
over 6 years ago
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-response-requires-a-gender-lens-by-susan-papp-and-marcy-hersh-2020-03
Gender is often an ignored factor during health emergencies, even though women comprise 70% of the global healthcare workforce. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the most effective policy responses will be those that account for how the crisis is experienced by women and girls.
#girls
#health
#women
#pay gap
#maternal mortality
#covid-19
over 6 years ago
https://www.wiego.org/blog/pandemic-informal-workers-urgently-need-income-replacement-and-more-protections
Social distancing & staying home are much less achievable for informal workers who are excluded from formal work-related protections. Emergency cash grants are critical to protect health & incomes.(598 kB)
#covid-19
#funding
#grants
#informal economy
#basic income
#poverty
#workers
#workers' rights
over 6 years ago
https://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/blog/news/RP-1920-033-S--scenario-analysis-covid-19-pandemic-oil-price-shocks--analyse-scenario-chocs-dus-pandemie-covid-19-chute-prix-petrole
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has released his scenario analysis report on COVID...this work is non-partisan and always high quality (my opinion). You might consider feeding this into some of task team work.
#economy
#covid-19
#oil prices
#fossil fuels
#financial analysis
over 6 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/a-letter-to-the-uk-from-italy-this-is-what-we-know-about-your-future
An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown
#europe
#italy
#covid-19
#stories
over 6 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/conflict-and-covid-19-are-a-deadly-mix-i-fear-for-the-worlds-most-vulnerable
As the Red Cross launches an emergency appeal, its president calls for the world to pull together.
#aid
#global health
#health
#infectious diseases
#covid-19
#war and conflict
over 6 years ago
https://www.communityfoundations.ca/dealing-with-covid-19-as-a-community-foundation/
We want to share information about the steps we are taking to support community foundations as well as updates about our operations during the crisis.
#covid-19
#resources
#webinars
#guides
over 6 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/28/lockdowns-world-rise-domestic-violence
Activists say pattern of increasing abuse is repeated in countries from Brazil to Germany, China to Greece.
#domestic violence
#covid-19
over 6 years ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p087jpgm
We ask whether gender makes a difference to how the coronavirus pandemic could impact you. A junior doctor in the UK points out that there isn't enough of the smaller size personal protection equipment to protect against coronavirus, most typically used by females, in the country. Clare Wenham from the London School of Economics talks us through a project she is leading researching the gendered impact of this virus, and previous ones. Caroline Criado Perez is author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, and argues that women's voices in disaster recovery simply do not get heard. And Mary-Ann Stephenson, director of the independent policy network, the Women's Budget Group, discusses what might be needed to correct any imbalance. Also in the programme, the BBC's Rob Young talks us through the latest economic developments in relation to the coronavirus crisis. Plus we have a report from San Francisco on how it is affecting workers in the gig economy there.
#gender
#covid-19
#podcast
#data
#gig economy
#healthcare
over 6 years ago
https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000113724/download/
#covid-19
#gender
#resources
over 6 years ago
https://qz.com/india/1826683/indias-approach-to-fighting-coronavirus-lacks-a-gender-lens
There is increasing recognition of the ways in which the health-related warlike emergency measures are disproportionately affecting specific sections of our society adversely.
#wage
#quarantine
#caste
#domestic violence
#abuse
#work from home
#india
#covid-19
over 6 years ago
https://medium.com/@awino.okech/a-feminist-reading-list-on-care-crisis-and-pandemics-eaf77a9d293b
The material ranges from reflections on Ebola, HIV/AIDS, post conflict societies, hostile contexts (also commonly referred to as closing civc space).
#feminism
#africa
#collective care
#gender
#covid-19
over 6 years ago
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/care-work-disability-framework-becomes-coronavirus-response
Will we continue to support our sick and disabled friends who will remain in isolation, even after shelter in place orders have been lifted?
#disability
#healthcare
#covid-19
#isolation
over 6 years ago