Practical guides for adolesecents and young people, and their parents and caregivers to see how gender can affect our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frontline AIDS. (2020). COVID-19 and gender: A guide for adolesecents and young people.
Practical guides for adolesecents and young people, and their parents and caregivers to see how gender can affect our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frontline AIDS. (2020). COVID-19 and gender: A guide for adolesecents and young people.
The Gender Equality Working group of the SDG3 Global Action Plan on Healthy Living and Well-being, along with the Gender and Health Hub at UNU-IIGH presents a guidance note and checklist of key actions for countries to prioritise that align with the core domains of WHO and UNICEF’s guidance for COVID-19 national deployment and vaccination plans. These include steps in the planning, delivery, and monitoring of vaccine deployment, such as:
SDG3 Global Action Plan For Healthy Lives and Well-Being: Gender Equality Working Group, & Gender and Health Hub. (2021). Guidance note and checklist for tackling gender-related barriers to equitable COVID-19 vaccine deployment.
Studying labour/time is an important research area, which allows us to make sense of the rhythms of everyday life of people in different contexts and societies. It is also a complex task that addresses the result of the research question, which inquires how and why people spend their time on social reproduction. Answering this question requires a systematic methodology involving both qualitative and quantitative research methods. In this Toolkit, we make the argument for bringing two important methodologies that study the everyday – Time-Use Surveys and Shadowing – to develop a Feminist Everyday Observatory Tool.
Rai S. M., & True J. (2020). Feminist Everyday Observatory Tool. Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development.
To complement Gavi’s Maintain, Restore and Strengthen Routine Immunisation guidance released last year, the newly-established Demand, Communities and Gender team at Gavi has developed a guidance specific to overcoming gender-related barriers to immunisation in the context of COVID-19. The guidance outlines existing gender-related barriers, how they have been exacerbated by the pandemic, examples of gender-responsive and transformative interventions alongside tools to support their design and implementation. The guidance is available in both English and French.
Gavi. (2021). Gavi Guidance to Address Gender-Related Barriers to Maintain, Restore and Strengthen Immunisation in the Context of COVID-19.
Should pregnant women get the COVID-19 vaccine? This decision aid outlines the benefits and risks of getting the COVID-19 vaccine when one is pregnant. It is intended for use by pregnant women (and women planning on becoming pregnant) who are considering getting the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as their healthcare providers, and their friends and family.
This decision aid was created by the Shared Decision-Making: COVID Vaccination in Pregnancy working group at the University of Massachusetts Medical School – Baystate. This group consists of experts in the fields of OB/GYN, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Shared Decision-Making and risk communication, Emergency Medicine, and current COVID-19 research.
University of Massachusetts Medical School–Baystate. (2020). COVID-19 Vaccine Information for Pregnant Women.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, the devastating toll on lives and economic well-being is already starkly apparent. In Canada, the COVID-19 crisis has had disproportionate economic, health and social impacts on cis and trans women, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people, particularly those who are low-income, people with disabilities, are members of the LGBTQ+ communities, belong to Indigenous, Black, or racialized communities or are newcomers, refugees, immigrants and migrants.
Nationally, as of July 2020, around 56% of the cases and 54% of the deaths from COVID-19 have been experienced by women. This is in part because women are on the frontlines of the pandemic. In Canada, 81% of the health care and social assistance workforce is made up of women. Fifty-six percent of women workers are concentrated in occupations known as the 5Cs: caring, cashiering, catering, cleaning and clerical functions, many of which are deemed essential occupations. In contrast, only 17% of men workers are employed in these jobs. Such jobs for the large part cannot be done remotely; while higher-income workers in sectors such as finance or professional services are able to work from home more safely.
Sultana, A. & Ravanera, C. (2020, July 28). A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada: Making the Economy Work for Everyone. The Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) and YWCA Canada.