Mappling on online articles on Covid 19 and gender

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Mapping of online articles on Covid-19 and Gender

21/04/2020

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11 May 2020

• COVID-19 and Gender Equality

• Gender-based violence and COVID-19

 

10 May 2020

• COVID-19: INCREASED HOMOPHOBIA IN SOUTH KOREA AFTER GAY BAR INFECTIONS

• 'Digital gender divide' is getting wider

• Violence against Indigenous women during COVID-19 sparks calls for MMIWG plan

• Stop widening gender inequalities: Asia’s COVID-19 responses must leave no one behind

• Sexual and gender-based violence during COVID-19: lessons from Ebola

 

9 May 2020

• CARE Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID 19 East, Central and Southern Africa

• What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about gender equality

 

8 May 2020

• Women Are Bearing the Brunt of the Covid-19 Economic Pain

• Women This Week: Sudan Passes Landmark Law on Female Genital Mutilation

• The Pandemic’s Gender Imperative

• Supporting African women through the economic consequences of COVID-19

• COVID-19: a public health approach to manage domestic violence is needed

 

7 May 2020

• COVID-19: Guidance Note on Gender-Based Violence Service Provision - Whole of Syria - April 2020 [EN/AR]

• Unheard Unseen: A COVID-19 briefing

• COVID-19: Ensure women’s access to sexual and reproductive health and rights

• COVID-19: three ways to support women, girls and vulnerable groups in humanitarian settings

• Gender Matters: COVID-19’s outsized impact on displaced women and girls

 

6 May 2020

• World Bank: Gender dimensions of COVID-19

• How to protect women from violence under lockdowns? Send cash.

• Coronavirus - Africa: Statement on Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Promoting Gender-Responsiveness in the COVID-19 Crisis

• COVID-19 Outbreak: Cox's Bazar Rapid Gender Analysis (May 2020)

 

5 May 2020

• Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree: A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn’t being divided more equitably than before the lockdown.

• Opinion: Without gender data, we leave critical COVID-19 clues on the table

• Gender in post COVID-19 development policy

• Review Launched on COVID-19, Ethnicity, Obesity, and Gender

 

4 May 2020

• The Covid-19 crisis is exacerbating gender inequalities—but who cares?

• FWRM deeply concerned with gender based violence during COVID-19 pandemic

• Opinion: We cannot allow COVID-19 to reinforce the digital gender divide

• USA: Women see biggest job losses during COVID-19, including in Utah

• COVID-19 PPE Gender Divide: No One-Size-Fits-All?

• UAE praised for protecting women amid Covid-19 outbreak

 

3 May 2020

• COVID-19 underscores Wyoming gender disparities as female unemployment surges

 

2 May 2020

• Addressing gender-based violence amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Viet Nam

• Fiji: Working group to analyze COVID-19 impact on women

 

1 May 2020

• What COVID-19 Tells Us About Gender Inequality in Latin America

• The “shadow pandemic” of gender-based violence

 

30 April 2020

• A UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19 (April)

• The pandemic is exposing and exploiting inequalities of all kinds, including gender inequality

• A solution to the economic turmoil of COVID-19: Gender parity

• COVID-19 Could Condemn Women To Decades of Poverty: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s and Girls’ Economic Justice and Rights

 

29 April 2020

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
• Preventing a silent crisis for Rohingya women and girls during COVID-19 pandemic
• What COVID-19 reveals about gender inequality
• Why are more men than women dying from the virus?

 

28 April 2020

• Safety plan for victims of domestic abuse amid Covid-19 lockdown
• Covid-19 could lead to 7 million unintended pregnancies: UN study
• Men are twice more likely to die of COVID-19 than women
• COVID-19 study shows that men have over double the death rate of women: Study of gender differences in COVID-19 finds that men have more severe disease and are over twice as likely to die

 

27 April 2020

• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Planning and Ending Gender-based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage
• India’s COVID–19 Gender Blind Spot: India’s women stand to lose from the country‘s COVID–19 policies in many ways.
• Minister says COVID-19 is empowering domestic violence abusers as rates rise in parts of Canada

 

26 April 2020

• How COVID-19 affects women's sexual and reproductive health
• Gender equity needs to go viral
• Liberia: Gender Ministry’s Exempt During COVID-19 Lockdown, Increases Sex & Domestic Violence, Says Child Rights Activist
• COVID-19: LGBTQ student support groups now connecting online
• Virtual meet-ups available for LGBTQ students to connect

 

25 April 2020

• Working from home is helping discussions around gender diversity in the corporate world
• World Economic Forum: Here’s how to achieve gender equality after the pandemic

 

24 April 2020

• Ask why
• Domestic Violence: A Hidden Pandemic
• Covid-19 Sent LGBTQ Students Back to Unsupportive Homes. That Raises the Risk They Won’t Return.
• Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
• COVID-19 highlights how caregiving fuels gender inequality

 

23 April 2020

• Gender and Covid-19: the immediate impact the crisis is having on women
• Southern Africa: Women and Girls Main Victims of Domestic and Gender Violence - SADC Secretariat
• SADC calls for collective efforts to fight gender-based violence amid COVID-19

 

22 April 2020

• Charlize Theron launches initiative to fight gender violence
• COVID-19 and gender gaps: Latest evidence and lessons from the UK

 

21 April 2020

• London Fashion Week Goes Digital And Gender Neutral Due To Covid-19

• The Census Needs to Count Women. The Pandemic Makes That Harder.

• Opinion: Coronavirus is driving a domestic violence pandemic

 

20 April 2020

• Coronavirus could hurt women the most. Here's how to prevent a patriarchal pandemic.

• UNHCR: Refugee women facing greater violence risk during crisis
• Displaced and stateless women and girls at heightened risk of gender-based violence in the Coronavirus pandemic

• Violence against women up amid Latin America COVID-19 lockdowns

• COVID-19: Gender-based violence during global emergencies

 

19 April 2020

• Testicles Are Serving as 'Reservoirs' For Coronavirus Making Men More At Risk of Longer and Severe Case of COVID-19: Study
• Sex workers say they’re at risk, have been left out of Canada’s COVID-19 response
• Why Sex Workers Say It's Dangerous For Them To Apply For CERB

 

18 April 2020

• Do testicles make men more vulnerable to the coronavirus?
• Husband Used COVID-19 to Harass Me, Says Estranged Wife

 

17 April 2020

• ‘Grammie’s Taking Food to Other People’: A Trucker Keeps Trucking

• Covid-19: The centrality and invisibility of women

• COVID-19 and Gender Equality Live Webinar MAY 6TH 7-7:45 PM
• Putting A Gender Lens On COVID-19: Thought Leaders Weigh In

 

16 April 2020

• Gender crisis amid COVID-19
• A Gender Lens For COVID-19
• Gender Equality: Why it Matters, Especially in a Time of Crisis
• Broader gender focus needed for COVID-19 response, advocates say
• Men die of coronavirus at twice women's rate in England and Wales
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commit more assistance to Africa

 

15 April 2020

• Why COVID-19 Response Needs To Focus On Women Globally
• Indigenous migrant women from Venezuela: extremely vulnerable to COVID-19
• Displaced women and girls in Latin America threatened by COVID-19
• The Covid-19 recession will hurt women more, but it might nudge them toward equality
• Sex Differences In COVID-19
• Kenya: Gender-Based Violence Incidents Triple in Wake of COVID-19 Containment
• ASEAN must not neglect migrant workers, refugees in COVID-19 response: Activists

 

14 April 2020

• It’s Not Just You: In Online Meetings, Many Women Can’t Get a Word In

• Gender Justice Funders Address Impact Of COVID-19 On Women And Girls
• Covid-19 risks worsening inequalities, clawing back inclusion gains
• Tsai praised as decisive female leader in COVID-19 fight

 

13 April 2020

• What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Reponses Have In Common? Women Leaders
• Panama: Transgender fined for violating gender-based covid19 rules. Panama does not recognize trans people's gender identity unless they have undergone surgery
• COVID-19 to worsen gender inequalities in Pakistan 

 

12 April 2020

• Pakistan: Minister of Human Rights prepares policy paper on gender impact of COVID-19
• The Women, Peace and Security Centre at LSE has been running a ‘Gendering COVID-19’ series exploring the realities for women living through this pandemic and the increasing importance of the WPS agenda.
• Small steps can help reduce GBV during Covid-19 lockdown and long after
• Ensuring Equity in Emergency response

 

11 April 2020

• Economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic has seen some unscrupulous landlords demand sex from vulnerable tenants in lieu of rent
• The gendered dimensions of COVID-19
• Nepal: Women hit harder in Asia-Pacific by COVID-19, says UN-Women report
• Gender and Covid19
• What Covid-19 teaches us about women’s mental health
• The secret weapon in the fight against coronavirus: women. Female leaders are doing exceptional work

 

10 April 2020

• Gender and COVID-19: Where Can Research Help
• As the Virus Unleashes Violence, Women in War-torn Countries Organize. We need a global plan to address the predictable rise in gender-based violence that COVID-19 is triggering.
• The First 100 Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Asia and the Pacific: A Gender Lens.
  This report presents a snapshot of the gender dimensions of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic and captures promising practices for integrating gender in preparedness and response planning while proposing potential and entry points to mitigate the socio-economic impacts for women and girls in the region. It discusses the impacts and the potential way forward on issues including women, peace and security, gender and disaster risk reduction, ending violence against women and women’s economic empowerment.
• Why Does the Coronavirus Kill More Men Than Women? We Asked Experts. Certain health habits, as well as sex hormones, may play a role.
• Female frontline workers in China typical of coronavirus economic and domestic burden on women: report
• VIDEO: Why coronavirus kills more men than women: As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge across the country, more men are dying than women. But why? Researchers say it has a lot to do with genetics and habits. For example, women have two "X" chromosomes, which help boost their immune system

 

09 April 2020

• UN Secretary-General: Put women and girls at centre of COVID-19 recovery
• Feeling Scatterbrained? Here’s Why: Stress, like a pandemic, puts our brains into “fight or flight” mode, disrupting attention, memory, breathing and sleep. But experts say it’s all very normal.
• Women and Gender Equality Minister of Canada says preparations are already underway to help shelters and other support networks for vulnerable women weather the next month of the COVID-19 crisis — as Statistics Canada reports that one in ten Canadian women are very or extremely concerned about the possibility of violence in their homes. 
• UN Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women
  https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/policy_brief_on_co... / https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sec...

 

8 April 2020

• Cyprus: Gender and smoking don’t seem to be factors.
• Gielan Elmessiri, Head of Office a.i, UN Women Egypt, commends Egypt's gender perspective in COVID-19 response plan
• Amnesty International: Europe: Failures to guarantee safe access to abortion endangers health of women, girls amid COVID-19

7 April 2020

• Informal workers on the frontlines of COVID-19: Providing critical services without adequate protections and pay

 

6 April 2020

• Vulnerable women in the Yukon are receiving free cell phones to stay safe amid CoVID-19 lockdown. "We know that the services that would otherwise be available to help women fleeing domestic violence are going to be reduced," Mason said.
• Violence against women and girls: the shadow pandemic. Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women 
• UN Women Infographic
• Guterres said: “For many women and girls, the threat looms largest where they should be safest. In their own homes. I urge all governments to make the prevention and redress of violence against women a key part of their national response plans for COVID-19.” + The experts say that women should play a more prominent role in contributing to improving prevention and response measures.
• COVID-19 Could Set Women Back Decades on Gender Equality. The coronavirus pandemic needs to bring reforms to upend the systems that hold girls and women back.
• UN chief calls for domestic violence ‘ceasefire’ amid ‘horrifying global surge’
• COVID-19 sex disaggregated data tracker: experience and evidence thus far tell us that both sex and gender are important drivers of risk and response to infection and disease. Countries urgently need to begin both collecting and publicly reporting sex-disaggregated data. + The data will be updated twice per week (normally on a Tuesday and Friday) and we will continue to add to the number of countries and indicators included.
• So France, inspired by a similar scheme in Spain, has started telling victims to head to drugstores. The government has announced that it will pay for 20,000 nights in hotel rooms for victims of domestic violence and open pop-up counseling centers at supermarkets. In Australia, the government said that Google has registered the most searches for domestic violence help in the past five years during the outbreak, with an increase of 75%.

 

5 April 2020

• Periods Don’t Stop for Pandemics, So She Brings Pads to Women in Need. Coronavirus has led to a rush on menstrual products. As with other supplies, those who can afford to hoard have done so, leaving women with lower incomes without basic essentials.
• Women’s Rights committee Chair, Evelyn Regner, urges the EU and member states to increase support to victims of domestic violence during the COVID-19 crisis. “‘I urge all EU member states to tackle this problem with determination and to communicate actively where and how those affected can get help.”
• COVID 19 and ending violence against women and girls. In Cyprus and Singapore helplines have registered an increase in call of 30% and 33% respectively. 
   

3 April 2020

• Does Covid-19 Hit Women and Men Differently? U.S. Isn’t Keeping Track. Data from other countries shows that more men are dying from the virus than women — a discrepancy that should inform the response and vaccine research in the U.S. But it isn’t.
• Coronavirus: Peru limits movement by gender to stem spread. Men can only leave home on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; women can do so on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On Sundays, no-one is allowed out.
• Peru, Panama introduce gender-based rules for COVID-19. Governments hope that requiring people to stay home on certain days will reduce coronavirus cases
• Panama Employs Gender-Based Plan to Fight COVID-19. The plan permits women to leave home to buy goods on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Men in Panama are allowed out on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.  No one is permitted to leave home on Sunday unless it’s an emergency.
• Coronavirus - Sudan: COVID-19 is a crisis for women in Sudan

 

2 April 2020

• The COVID-19 pandemic could have huge knock-on effects on women's health, says the UN

 

1 April 2020

• COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies. Globally, women are more vulnerable to economic shocks wrought by crises such as the coronavirus pandemic. + But since women tend to work without clear terms of employment, they often are not entitled to reliable social protection such as health insurance, paid sick and maternity leave, pensions and unemployment benefits.+  Women remain responsible for the lion's share of domestic chores and care work. + As governments take steps to address the economic and social effects of COVID-19, they should not let it reverse the gender equality progress achieved in recent decades.
• Calls to Spain's gender violence helpline rise sharply during COVID-19 lockdown
  New COVID-19 Global Rapid Gender Analysis Addresses Concerns of Women and Girls in Pandemic: CARE and the International Rescue Committee published a Rapid Gender Assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic based on secondary data analysis undertaken between 12-20 March 2020.