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COVID-19 and gender: A guide for adolesecents and young people

July 19, 2021 No CommentsHeang-Lee

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.

Guidance note and checklist for tackling gender-related barriers to equitable COVID-19 vaccine deployment

June 17, 2021 No CommentsHeang-Lee

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:

the meaningful involvement of gender experts and representatives of community in planning, decision-making, identifying barriers, communicating information, building trust, and vaccinating the population.
vaccine delivery and logistic planning based on context-based knowledge of women, men and gender-diverse groups’ health-seeking preferences, such as community or workplace-based delivery, addressing travel or mobility challenges to access vaccination sites, and employing women vaccinators to ensure social acceptability in communities with gender segregation, and ensuring women vaccinators are safe, well remunerated, and receive adequate training.
evidence-based messaging using culturally-sensitive and, inclusive mediums to share evidence, dispel myths, misinformation and uncertainty, to support vaccination uptake, such as by co-creating tailored messaging with stakeholders, and leveraging diverse communication channels and networks to reach different sub-groups of women, men and gender-diverse people.
data systems that collect, report and use sex-disaggregated vaccine outcomes in decision-making such as in vaccine regulatory approval processes, vaccine safety surveillance and outreach monitoring….

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.

Feminist Everyday Observatory Tool

June 15, 2021 No CommentsHeang-Lee

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.

Gavi guidance to address gender-related barriers to maintain, restore and strengthen immunisation in the context of COVID-19

January 27, 2021 No CommentsHeang-Lee

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.

COVID-19 vaccine information for pregnant women

January 18, 2021 No CommentsHeang-Lee

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.

A feminist economic recovery plan for Canada: making the economy work for everyone

September 16, 2020 No CommentsHeang-Lee

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.