Ana Gutierrez , Jennifer Martin and Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal explore how the Mexico City ban on single use plastic contributes to period poverty and how this is particularly challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors all volunteer for Pandemic Periods. The United Nations Generation Equality Forum took place in Mexico City just a few weeks ago. It […]
During world health worker week, Oluwatobi Ogundele and Margaret Walton-Roberts take stock of what the pandemic has done to health workers. This world health worker week marks one year of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Our ability to manage the medical complications of COVID-19 have rested on backs of health care workers, and it shows. Physicians, […]
Karen Joe and Rachel Fisher Ingraham – the WASH sub-group co-facilitators for the Gender and COVID-19 Working Group – reflect on the intersections between water and COVID-19 for World Water Day. The COVID-19 pandemic response relies on clean water to help mitigate the spread of the disease, yet the World Health Organization estimates that globally, […]
Lynda Keeru of Pamoja Communications summarizes Naila Kabeer’s recent lecture at LSE, organised in memory of Sylvia Chant. The lecture explores essential work, labour market disruptions and contestations within the household to draw attention to the gendered nature of economic pandemic effects. In the lecture, ‘Gender and COVID-19: a feminist economics lens’, Naila Kabeer, kicked off […]
A year into the pandemic, much discussion has been had on what a gender-responsive and inclusive social protection response could and should look like. Here, Rebecca Holmes, Deputy Team Lead for the joint FCDO-GIZ-DFAT SPACE service – sets out six practical actions for making these visions a reality, within any operating context. Evidence shows that […]
Periods don’t pause for pandemics, so in this blog Dr. Jennifer S. Martin and Victoria Heaney explain the connections between menstruation and COVID-19. They also celebrate their latest policy win – the Scottish Parliament Bill to ensure items such as tampons and sanitary pads are available for free to all people that menstruate. A piece […]
We had a look back through google analytics to see which blogs and resources have been most popular since we launched in the site in July 2020. Kate Hawkins gives us the low down on what you found most compelling. It’s a mixture of types of outputs, geographical settings and themes. Hawaii and Canada: Lessons […]
Dr Marianna Leite works on the development of holistic approaches to gender and intersecting inequalities that ensure equality of outcomes and rights for all. She is a specialist on gender and development and an international human rights lawyer. In this blog for Human Rights Day she explores how human rights link with gender and COVID-19. Most people […]
COVID-19 unearths several important gender dimensions and implications before, during, and after data collection which Chi-Chi Undie, Nicole Haberland, Sanyukta Mathur, Isabel Vieitez and Julie Pulerwitz of the Population Council explore in this blog. In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world as we knew it – including the world of data collection. […]
Making the Biden-Harris Transition Plan for COVID-19 gender-responsive calls upon the Biden-Harris administration to ensure that its transition plan to “build back better” responds to the gendered effects of the pandemic and provides concrete recommendations on how it can be done. Women, people of color, and other historically marginalized groups in America and around the […]
