Gender and COVID-19

Gender Lens

• 18 Women in the workplace statistics you need to know (in 2021)
• COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak
• Gender and the Coronavirus Outbreak
• The COVID-19 Outbreak and Gender: Key Advocacy Points from Asia and the Pacific
• The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism: Pandemics affect men and women differently 
• Why gender matters in the impact and recovery from Covid-19
• COVID-19 is not gender neutral
• CALL FOR GLOBAL EVIDENCE ON GENDER AND COVID-19
• Briefing: Covid-19 – Gender and other Equality Issues (Women’s Budget Group)
• Coronavirus: A Look at Gender Differences in Awareness and Actions
• COVID-19: Can A Health Crisis Become A Breeding Site For Gender Inequality?
• Sex, gender and COVID-19: Disaggregated data and health disparities
• A gender perspective: COVID and Public spaces
• Gender “Could be Coronavirus Key”
• Gender equality during COVID-19: 5 ideas for action
• Gender differences in patients with COVID-19: Focus on severity and mortality
• A comparison study of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody between male and female COVID-19 patients: a possible reason underlying different outcome between gender.
• UN working to ensure vulnerable groups not left behind in COVID-19 response 
• A Gender Lens for COVID-19
• Media, remember gender in your COVID-19 coverage
• COVID-19 in the Caribbean region: indications of gendered nature
• The Gender Question | The Novel Outbreak (podcast with Sarah Hawkes)
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality 
• Planning for prevention: Spotlighting potential gendered implications of COVID-19 in Fiji
• CARE Rapid Gender Analysis COVID-19 Pacific Region
• CARE Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19
• The Impact of COVID-19 on gender equality
• Coronavirus: 9 ways you can support gender equality from your home
• Primer on the gendered impacts of COVID-19
• COVID-19: Emerging gender data and why it matters
• Call to Action: Now and the Future, COVID-19 and Gender Equality, Global Peace and Security
• OPINION: The gendered impact of COVID-19 in India
• Gender and COVID-19: Where Can Research Help?
• The First 100 Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Asia and the Pacific: A Gender Lens

 

Pandemic Preparedness and Response

• Playing the Long Game: How a Gender Lens Can Mitigate Harm Caused by Pandemics
• ‘Gender blind’ coronavirus policies could hinder disease fight
• COVID-19 crisis response must address gender faultlines
• UN Chief seeks gender responsive strategies on Covid-19
• In Focus: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response
• Women and COVID-19: Five things governments can do now
• Checklist for COVID-19 response by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér
• Pandemics Are Not Gender-Neutral, Gender Analysis Can Improve Response To Disease Outbreaks
• Action: Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy
• Protecting women is missing from pandemic management measures in India
• What Do Women and Working Families Need to Face COVID-19?
• Gender Equality and Addressing Gender-based Violence (GBV) and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Prevention, Protection and Response.
• Five Actions for Gender Equality in the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Response: Technical Note
• Coronavirus: Malaysian men in shopping muddle amid lockdown
• Statement of Feminists and Women’s Rights Organizations from the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North
• Covid-19 responses: Why feminist leadership matters in a crisis
• COVID-19 and gender-blind responses: key policies adopted across the UK and EU put many women at risk
• In Panama, coronavirus lockdown means separating men and women
• COVID-19: Laying Down the Groundwork for Recovery with Gender at the Fore
• Peru to restrict movement by gender during virus quarantine
• COVID 19 Decoded: Women in Global Health Finland pre-launch workshop (webinar recording exploring why we need gender lens in response efforts)
• FAMILY-FRIENDLY POLICIES AND OTHER GOOD WORKPLACE PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19: Key steps employers can take
• Q&A: UN Women envisions a more gender-equal post-pandemic society
• Why WHO needs a feminist economic agenda
• Business Fights Poverty COVID-19 Response Framework
• Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19
• Women’s Needs And Gender Equality In Lebanon’s Covid-19 Response
• Lessons from African Feminists Mobilizing Against COVID-19
• Breaking Down Gendered Power Norms during the Pandemic and Beyond
• Women and SA’s ruthlessly efficient fight against coronavirus
• COVID-19: Why Policymakers Need A Gender-focused Approach for Health and Economic Recovery
• State measures to address COVID-19 must be gender responsive
• UN Women commends Egypt's gender perspective in COVID-19 response plan
• The blindspot in our response to COVID-19
• New quarantine policy in the capital: Pico y género
• Broader gender focus needed for COVID-19 response, advocates say
• Back to where we always have been: sex/gender segregation to contain Covid-19

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Intersectional Approaches and COVID

• Beyond sex and gender analysis: an intersectional view of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and response
• An Intersectional Approach to a Pandemic? Gender Data, Disaggregation, and COVID-19
• Webinar - Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare, with Kimberle Crenshaw
• An Intersectional Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Call for Revolution
• Intersectionality Matters Podcast with Kimberle Crenshaw (new episodes posted regularly; recent ones have been related to COVID-19)
• What a Virologist Thinks You Should Know About CoVid-19: GenPol in Conversation with Nerea Irigoyen
• Show Me The Data, But Disaggregate It First
• We need class, race, and gender sensitive policies to fight the COVID-19 crisis
• Responding to COVID-19 with a Gender & Race Lens
• Statement on Rights at the Intersection of Gender and Disability during COVID-19​

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Women and COVID-19

• How Will COVID-19 Affect Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
• Coronavirus: Five ways virus upheaval is hitting women in Asia
• Why Women May Face a Greater Risk of Catching Coronavirus
• The coronavirus fallout may be worse for women than men. Here's why
• Why the Coronavirus Outbreak Could Hit Women Hardest
• Paying attention to women’s needs and leadership will strengthen COVID-19 response
• Ideas for a Pro-Poor and Pro-Women Approach to COVID-19
• Column: Ease heavy burden of women affected by COVID-19 pandemic
• Women Are Bearing the Brunt of Coronavirus Disruption
• As pandemic rages, women and girls face intensified risks
• Why women will be hardest hit by a coronavirus-driven recession
• Checklist for COVID-19 response by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér
• COVID-19: Women front and centre
• COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: cómo incorporar a las mujeres y la igualdad de género en la gestión de la respuesta a la crisis
• COVID-19 Outbreak: Emerging Issues for Women and Girls and Gender- Sensitive Recommendations by UN Women & UNFPA
• Why COVID-19 Response Efforts Need to Consider That Pandemics Hit Women and Girls the Hardest
• How Covid-19 Might Change Indian Feminist Narratives For Eternity
• Coronavirus puts women in the frontline
• How Women Deliver is Responding to COVID-19
• Covid-19, VBG y la respuesta humanitaria en Cúcuta
• Engender Briefing: Women and COVID-19
• We can’t forget women as we tell the story of covid-19
• Comment: Women’s vulnerability during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Keeping up the drumbeat for women’s rights and gender data amid COVID-19
• UNFPA advocates for women, girls suffering unseen impacts of COVID-19 pandemic
• How India’s lockdown has put women at a greater disadvantage
• Gendering COVID-19: implications for women, peace and security
• Opinion: How Is The Pandemic Going To Affect Gender Equality
• Will coronavirus make the gender pay gap worse?
• The COVID-19 pandemic could have huge knock-on effects on women's health, says the UN
• Women at the core of the fight against COVID-19 crisis
• COVID-19 Could Set Women Back Decades on Gender Equality
• Blog: COVID-19 and lockdowns  - Are women more affected?
• Crises Collide: Women and Covid-19

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Including Women in COVID-19 Decision-Making

• Operation 50/50: Women’s Perspectives Saves Lives - List of 90+ women experts working in health security
• Elevating women in the age of coronavirus
• Opinion: Global health security depends on women
• OPINION: Why we need women’s leadership in the COVID-19 response
• Fighting COVID-19 With One Hand Tied Behind Our Backs?
• Coronavirus measures will hit women harder than men, charities warn
• Women’s leadership and unlocking girls’ talent in the era of the coronavirus pandemic

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Men and COVID-19

• Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women
• The coronavirus is killing far more men than women
• Where Women Are Ahead of Men: Hand Washing
• In Italy, Coronavirus Takes a Higher Toll on Men
• Why is coronavirus so much more deadly for men than for women?
• Here's why the coronavirus may be killing more men than women. The US should take note
• Men are much more likely to die from coronavirus - but why?
• Men are getting sicker, dying more often of covid-19, Spain data shows
• Men's Risk From Covid-19
• Why are more men dying of COVID-19?
• Time to change the outdated narrative that masculinity is the principle cause of men’s health problems
• Coronavirus: Why do more men die of Covid-19 than women?
• Why being male doubles risk of corona death
• Gender, Masculinity, and COVID-19
• All across the United States, the coronavirus is killing more men than women, data show
• Are Men More Susceptible to COVID-19? (podcast)
• Men are more likely to die of coronavirus than women, even when women catch it more often. This might be why
• Coronavirus: What is the risk to men over 50?
• Coronavirus hits men harder. Here's what scientists know about it
• Coronavirus reveals just how deep macho stereotypes run through society

 

LGBTQ, Gender Minorities,  and COVID-19

• The Coronavirus (COVID-19): What Trans People Need to Know
•  LGBTQ community may be 'particularly vulnerable' to coronavirus pandemic. Here's why.
• LGBTQ People Especially at Risk for COVID-19, Say 100+ Organizations
• Coronavirus Is Exposing How the Health Care System Neglects LGBTQ People
• LGBTQ community uniquely impacted by COVID-19, research shows
• The Lives and Livelihoods of Many in the LGBTQ Community are at Risk Amidst COVID-19 Crisis
• Trans People, Estrogen, and COVID-19
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Minorities
• Trans and Gender Diverse People and COVID-19
• A Letter To Our Collective Trans And Gender Diverse Movements In Response To COVID-19
• Isolation and HIV memories hit LGBT+ elderly hard in lockdowns
• Transgender legal group releases coronavirus guide 
• Coronavirus, COVID-19, and Considerations for People Living with HIV and LGBTQIA+ People
• The lives and livelihoods of many in the LGBTQ community are at risk admist COVID-19 crisis
• Uganda charges 20 LGBT+ people with risking spread of coronavirus
• An Update on Gender Affirming Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Coronavirus pandemic a perfect storm for LGBTQ homeless youth
• Trans groups push for urgent government funding to support their communities through the pandemic
• LBTI Caucus statement in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
• An Update on Gender Affirming Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Education

• Covid-19 School Closures Around The World Will Hit Girls Hardest
• Addressing the gender dimensions of COVID-related school closures

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Economic Insecurity/Employment

• From nannies to helpers, coronavirus spotlights Asia women's job insecurity
• America's Cleaners: Fighting on the Coronavirus Front Line
• Why women will be hardest hit by a coronavirus-driven recession
• Gender economist Katica Roy: If we don't act fast, women will bear the brunt of the financial crisis caused by coronavirus
• ‘Stay Home’ and Work? Implications of COVID-19 and the UK Governmental Response for Self-Employed Women
• Most Brown and Black Americans Are Exposing Themselves to Coronavirus for a Paycheck
• Low-paid women in UK at ‘high risk of coronavirus exposure’
• When face-to-face interactions become an occupational hazard: Jobs in the time of COVID-19
• Equal Pay Day more important than ever amid COVID-19
• Here’s How You Can Help Sex Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak
• COVID-19 lockdown: Rights groups demand immediate social security measures for women
• How the coronavirus widens the gender pay gap
• Why This Economic Crisis Differs From the Last One for Women
• How the COVID-19 Crisis Is Hurting Sex Workers
• Economically, women are likely to make three steps backwards in push for equality once the coronavirus effect is over.
• COVID-19 Highlights the Failure of Neoliberal Capitalism: We Need Feminist Global Solidarity
• COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies
• How Economic Fallout From The Coronavirus May Disproportionately Affect Women 
• Lockdown: Domestic workers struggle to make ends meet as families refuse to pay
• COVID-19 will make gender pay inequities worse
• COVID-19 worsening gender inequality, more women have lost jobs – UN
• Female frontline workers in China typical of coronavirus economic and domestic burden on women: report

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Domestic Violence

• Domestic Violence Cases Surge During COVID-19 Epidemic
• Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Violence against Women and Girls
• WHY WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR COVID -19 TO INCREASE THE RISK OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
• As Cities Around the World Go on Lockdown, Victims of Domestic Violence Look for a Way Out
• Home Is Not A Safe Place For Everyone
• Frequently Asked Questions - COVID-19 and Family Violence
• What does coronavirus mean for violence against women?
• How to stop Coronavirus Lockdown Leading to an Upsurge in Violence Against Women
• When Home Isn’t Safe: Shelter-in-Place Is Putting Domestic Violence Survivors in a “Dire Situation”
• Confinement : les violences conjugales en hausse, un dispositif d’alerte mis en place dans les pharmacies 
• Family violence perpetrators using COVID-19 as 'a form of abuse we have not experienced before'
• Coronavirus: Domestic abuse victims 'still allowed to leave home'
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) and family violence
• Women’s Aid comments on the impact of coronavirus on women and children escaping domestic abuse
• Lockdowns around the world bring rise in domestic violence
• COVID-19 Fuels Domestic Violence In China
• Ending violence against women in the context of COVID-19
• Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Will Rise During Quarantines. So Will Neglect of At-Risk People, Social Workers Say
• Pandemics and Violence Against Women and Children
• Domestic violence reports rise in China amid COVID-19 lockdown
• France Announces Plan To Aid Domestic Abuse Victims During Coronavirus Crisis
• COVID-19 isolation could create ‘fertile ground for domestic violence’
• Women's advocates fear an uptick in domestic violence from COVID-19
• France Is Putting Domestic Abuse Victims in Hotels During Coronavirus Lockdown
• Women are using code words at pharmacies to escape domestic violence during lockdown
• Domestic Violence and Coronavirus: Hell Behind Closed Doors
• Increase in domestic violence feared during virus lockdown
• When home isn’t safe: How coronavirus puts neighbours on front lines of abuse
• Domestic violence cases jump 30% during lockdown in France
• Where Can Domestic Violence Victims Turn During Covid-19?
• Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 - UN chief video message
• WHO chief urges stop to gender violence amid 'horrifying' global surge in coronavirus figures
• European countries develop new ways to tackle domestic violence during coronavirus lockdowns
• COVID-19: Across Globe, Domestic Violence Rises as Virus Rages
• Home Quarantine: Confinement with the Abuser?
• Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19 
• COVID-19: Reducing the risk of infection might increase the risk of intimate partner violence
• "Make the prevention and redress of violence against women a key part of national response plans for COVID-19
• COVID-19 and violence against women What the health sector/system can do

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Domestic Burden/ Care Work

• Women's domestic burden just got heavier with the coronavirus
• Home Schooling responsibilities of Women
• Protect Caregivers From Coronavirus
• COVID-19 demands that we pay attention to who does the care work – and how we support them
• COVID-19 self-isolation a good time for couples to fix housework gender divide, experts say
• Coronavirus: Parents of SEN children struggle as schools close
• Return of the 1950s housewife? How to stop coronavirus lockdown reinforcing sexist gender roles
• Childcare in an Age of Coronavirus
• What the Covid-19 lockdown tells us about the gender gap in house-work
• ‘I Feel Like I Have Five Jobs’: Moms Navigate the Pandemic
• Social distancing from house helps is exposing the Indian family’s unspoken sexism
• Pitch in with housework, Mexico tells men at home due to pandemic
• Gender Balance in the COVID Home: An opportunity to recalibrate the emotional burden
• Lessons from the Coronavirus: The socialization of care work is not ‘just’ a women’s issue

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Health Workers

• PES Women: Women are on the front line of the corona-crisis, yet gender-issues are being ignored
• COVID-19: protecting health-care workers
• Needs of female medical workers overlooked in coronavirus fights, advocates say
• Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019
• A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Investing in Nurses and Other Frontline Health Workers to Improve Health Systems
• We are learning how much we depend on low-paid workers
• To really value our healthcare workers, we need to close the gender pay gap
• Big Changes Needed to Recruit and Retain Young Nurses, in Kenya and Beyond

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Sexual and Reproductive Health

• COVID-19: A Gender Lens - Protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights, and promoting gender equality
• Opinion: How will COVID-19 affect global access to contraceptives — and what can we do about it?
• The COVID-19 Outbreak: Potential Fallout for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• “The babies keep coming”: What the coronavirus pandemic means for people giving birth
• SRHR and COVID-19 (website of resources)
• COVID-19: What implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally?
• COVID-19 and abortion care: why we need remote access to reproductive health services
• Sexual and Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Crisis
• Covid-19 and reproductive health: What can we learn from previous epidemics?
• Make Abortion More Available During the Pandemic — Not Less
• State control over women's bodies is an unforeseen outcome of the coronavirus crisis
• Reproductive rights in the time of COVID-19
• Abortion is a human right. A pandemic doesn't change that
• Your Questions About Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Answered
• Coronavirus Threatens an Already Strained Maternal Health System
• Coronavirus and women’s health: Contraception, pregnancy and menopause
• Safeguarding essential care in the time of COVID-19
• COVID-19 & Family Planning

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Pregnancy

• In the race for coronavirus vaccines, don’t leave pregnant women behind  
• PRIORITY: Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry (UCSF Study)  
• What are the risks of COVID-19 infection in pregnant women?
• Novel Coronavirus “COVID-19”: Special Considerations for Pregnant Women
• The Anxiety of Being Pregnant During the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Novel Coronavirus “COVID-19”: Special Considerations for Pregnant Women
• As COVID-19 continues to spread, pregnant and breastfeeding women advised to take precautions
• COVID-19 in Pregnancy
• PMNCH guidance on COVID-19 and women, children and adolescents’ health (compilation of resources)
• Coronavirus Is Forcing Pregnant Women to Make Tough Choices

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Development and Humanitarian Settings

• Gender Implications of Covid-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings - Full report ; Executive Summary
• Women in Bangladesh promote hygiene in refugee camps amid coronavirus fears
• ‘Wash Our Hands? Some People Can’t Wash Their Kids for a Week.’
• Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in complex humanitarian crises
• Conflict, Development, and Covid-19 Resources (compilation of resources)
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom - COVID-19 resources (compilation of resources)
• Interim Guidance: Gender Alert for COVID-19 Outbreak (developed by the IASC Reference Group for Gender in Humanitarian Action) - English and Spanish

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Mental Health

• Briefing Note on Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of COVID-19 Outbreak - IASC
• Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019
• 'Cabin fever': Australia must prepare for the social and psychological impacts of a coronavirus lockdown
• Is There a Widening Gender Gap in Coronavirus Stress?

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Children and COVID-19

• UNICEF: COVID-19 and Children (data portal)
• Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• What Do We Know About Children and Coronavirus Transmission?
• Children May Carry Coronavirus at High Levels, Study Finds

 

Resource Compilations - gender and COVID

• COVID-19 situation update for the WHO European Region
• Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths
• ICNARC report on COVID-19 in critical care
• Spain (in Spanish)
• Sex, gender and COVID-19: Disaggregated data and health disparities
• Sex, gender and COVID-19 (Live data tracker)
• Which occupations expose workers to COVID-19 most?
• Covid-19 worldwide: we need precise data by age group and sex urgently
• Does Covid-19 Hit Women and Men Differently? U.S. Isn’t Keeping Track
• COVID-19: Emerging gender data and why it matters
• COVID-19, gender and data: resources and reporting
• Data2x: Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19
• COVID-19, Gender, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Digest Sign-Up Form
• PMNCH guidance on COVID-19 and women, children and adolescents’ health
• Gender and the COVID-19 pandemic
• Feminist Resources on the Pandemic
• Conflict, Development, and Covid-19 Resources
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom - COVID-19 resources
• Resources on COVID and Gender (in French, English and Spanish)
• Utilizing evidence-based research to incorporate a gendered lens for the COVID-19 pandemic
• Gender Based Violence AoR
• Coronavirus in the Middle East: A look at COVID-19 in seven countries, some fragile or failed, which illustrates many of the problems the region faces
• Gender_One Health and Infectious Disease Training Module- Facilitator Guide + more
• COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement
• Centre for Gender and Disaster
• Addressing sex and gender in epidemic-prone infectious diseases
• Taking sex and gender into account in emerging infectious disease programmes: an analytical framework
• Resources on Ethics and COVID
• COVID-19 Ethics and Policy Insights and Resources
• Article on the effects of covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Article Covid-19 has revealed widespread sexism in China
• Webinar series on inequality and covid-19 (in Spanish), includes conversations on: domestic violence, prison crisis, migration, trans rights and sexual work
• From Abortion To Domestic Violence: How The Coronavirus Crisis Hits Women Hardest
• Moscow Silently Expands Surveillance of Citizens