Gender

COVID-19 and Gender Equality, a webpage aims to raise awareness about some of the gendered impacts that Covid-19 is having on our society.
Reaching India’s Poorest Women with COVID-19 Relief – Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore, and Elena Stacy
Bangladeshi Women Play Crucial Role in Fight against COVID-19 by Sajeda Amin
COVID-19 and Domestic Violence: Caring States? by Soheln Nazneen
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality by Titan M. Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt: Summary & Full paper
How Will COVID-19 Affect Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? by David Evans: How Will COVID-19 Affect Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
A blog post by Laura Sili explains the impact of the pandemic on women
A blog by Farzana Afridi and Nalini Gulati discusses new research studies with a ‘gendered’ light on some of the emerging issues around work and welfare
A Gender Lens on COVID-19: Pandemics and Violence against Women and Children by Megan O’Donnell, Amber Peterman, and Alina Potts
Matthias Doepke’s Summary of a Lecture on Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
How Microeconomics Can Help Devise Evidence-based Policy Responses to COVID-19 by Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, a World Bank Policy Note
The article on COVID-19 uniquely affects women. Here are many of the ways it does: The invisible coronavirus makes systemic gender inequalities and injustices visible by Liane Schalatek, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Labour Market Inequalities are Exacerbated by COVID-19 by Naila Kabeer
Gender-sensitive Social Protection: A Critical Component of the COVID-19 Response in Low- and Middle-income Countries by Melissa Hidrobo, Neha Kumar, Tia Palermo, Amber Peterman, and Shalini Roy, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The COVID-19 Pandemic is Exacerbating the Care Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean from Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Women at the Core of the Fight against COVID-19 Crisis by OECD
Mapping of Online Articles on Covid-19 and Gender Provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Policy brief on Violence Against Women Incorporating Behavioural Add-Ons Into Cash Transfer Programmes By Mahreen Mahmud
COVID-19: Why Gender Matters, comments from the Overseas Development Institute’s researchers
The World Bank’s resource for Gender and COVID-19
COVID-19 Resources: Gender Data, Gender, and Data from Data2X, United Nations Foundation
Feminist Resources on the Pandemic provided by Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
Gender in Post COVID-19 Development Policy: Looking through a Feminist Lens by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Tracking the Gender Impact of COVID-19: An Indicator Framework by Mayra Buvinic, Lorenz Noe, Eric Swanson
Industries Post-COVID-19: A Gender-responsive Approach to Global Economic Recovery by Cecila Ugaz Estrada, Müge Dolun, Carmen Schuber, and Nicolas Schmidt
Gender Data Series: Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls Online event series by provided by DEVEX
The COVID-19 Pandemic is Linked to a Ten Percent Increase in Domestic Violence Cases Across the Country by Emily Leslie and Riley Wilso
COVID-19 Places Extra Burden on African Women by Antonio Cascais
Anti-corruption Response to COVID-19 Must Include Women, Transparency International and UN Women call for inclusive, transparent and corruption-free public policies across Latin America and the Caribbean
Government Responses to COVID-19 are Exacerbating Gender-based Violence by Muthoni Muriithi, Oxfam Africa
A report from Care International on Where Are the Women? The Conspicuous Absence of Women in COVID-19 Response Teams and Plans, and Why We Need Them
Will COVID-19 Widen the Gender Justice Gap? By Sandie Okoro, and Paul Prettitor
Labor Market: Women and Minorities Hit Hardest By COVID-19 Unemployment by Raghav Sigh
Covid-19: Gender Inequalities in the Labour Market: Three questions to Monika Queisser, Head of Social Policy Division at the OECD from Institut Montaign
Women’s Financial Resiliency as it Relates to COVID-19, materials crowd-sourced from the FinEquity community on the issue of E’s financial resiliency as it relates to COVID-1
COVID-19: A Backward Step for Gender Equalitity by Stefania Fabrizio, Vivian Malta, Marina M. Tavares
Global Labor Justice publishes report on advancing gender justice in Asian fast-fashion supply chains in wake of covid-19 pandemic
Opinion: Tackling the rise of violence against women during COVID-19 by Laura Kyrke Smit
Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic by Brooke Peterson Gabster, Kimvan Daalen, Roopa Dhatt, MicheleBarry, from the Lance
What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths? When in doubt, look to social factors first, not biology, by Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Meredith W. Reiches and Sarah S. Richardson, Ms. Shattuck-Heidorn, Ms. Reiches and Ms. Richardson direct the GenderSci Lab at Harvard University, The New York Time
How COVID-19 Worsens Gender Inequality in Nepal: The pandemic will worsen existing gaps in women’s education, income, and employment prospects by Luna K.C
COVID-19 and Violence against Women and Children: What Have We Learned So Far? By Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, and Tia Palermo
Women leaders and coronavirus: look beyond stereotypes to find the secret to their success by Kate Maclean, the Conversatio
Gender Gaps in the Time of Covid-19 by Veronica Frisancho and Diego Vera-Cossio from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Tackling gender justice and inequality during the time of COVID-19 and beyond by Mahnaz Lashkri, Oxfam in Iraq
A policy paper on addressing the economic fallout of COVID-19: Pathways and policy options for a gender-responsive recovery by Jade Cochran, Bobo Diallo, Seemin Qayum, Anuradha Seth, and Silke Staab
How to help women workers affected by COVID-19 by Steven Beck, ADB
As home births rise in Nepal, so do fears for maternal health by Marty Logan, Journalist and communicator based in Kathmandu
UN Women Afghanistan Gender Alert on COVID-19 series, Gender Alert on COVID-19 in Afghanistan | Issue XII: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women Affiliated with Opium Poppy Cultivation
The Pandemic’s Toll on Women: COVID-19 Is Gender-Blind, But Not Gender-Neutral by Melinda Gates
COVID-19 and gender equality: Countering the regressive effects from McKinsey Global Institute
Protection Risks During COVID-19: Negotiating Safe Access to Gender-Based Violence Services in The Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh by Katica Roy CEO, Pipeline
Panama: New Trans Discrimination Cases Under Covid-19 Measures: Government Needs to Clarify Gender-Based Quarantine System from Human Rights Watch
Breadwinner vs caretaker: the pandemic’s potential gender implications for families by Sophie Hennekam and Yuliya Shymko
The COVID-19 crisis disproportionately affects women – here’s how Latin America is addressing it by Elselot Hasselaar and Andrea Saldarriaga Jiméne
A report on COVID-19 and women migrant workers: Impacts and Implications from IOM by Laura Foley and Nicola Piper
Women in Iranian Job Market Are Hardest Hit by COVID-19, Data Shows by Kayhan Life Staff
COVID19 and women’s self-help groups by SOUMYA BHOWMICK
Sour Grapes: Discouraged workers and Labor Markets in the Context of the COVID-19 crisis
By Luis Felipe López-Calva, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
COVID-19 accentuates women’s disadvantage in Turkey’s labor market, UN survey shows by Harriet Grant and Joshua Carroll
The indirect impact of COVID-19 on women by Talha Burki
Gender and COVID-19 Working Group, a global group of researchers, health practitioners, policy actors, and advocates who share resources and expertise on topics related to gender equity, women’s empowerment, human rights, and COVID-19
COVID-19 at the Intersection of Gender and Disability by Women Enabled International
The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Gender Equality by Kayla Rolland
Information note: Women More Affected by Trade Disruptions from COVID-19 by WTO
Gender and COVID-19 in Brazil: Social impacts on women’s lives by Camila Pimentel and Denise Pimenta
Expert’s take: Four lessons from COVID-19 that should shape policy decisions everywhere from UN Women
We lack an essential component to power COVID-19 response provided by Devex
Pandemic is widening poverty gap between women and men, new UN findings show by Amy Lieberman
Covid-19 to push 47 million women to poverty by Kamau Maichuhie
Not accounting for sex differences in Covid research could be deadly by Natalie Grover
In Indonesia, the COVID-19 pandemic hurts poor women the most by Diahhadi Setyonaluri and Rachmat Reksa Samudra
Strategic action plan on the COVID-19 Gender Gap: How Women’s Experience and Expertise Will Drive Economic Recovery by Elizabeth Isele and Stéphane Dubois
School, health and nutrition: Why COVID-19 demands a rethink of education to address gender inequalities by Stefania Giannini
Women’s access to stimulus packages and post Covid-19 gender equality in Bangladesh by Fahmida Hasan
COVID-19 and Violence against Women and Children: A Second Research Round-Up by Amber Peterman and Megan O’Donnell
Could COVID-19 widen the workplace gender gap? By Ellen Wulfhorst
Gender Alert on Covid-19 Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch
Are countries doing enough to support women through the pandemic? By Lucy Foster
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying by Dina Gerdeman
Will the Pandemic Exacerbate or Mitigate the Digital Gender Gap? By Parul Tandon & Sonal Jaitly
A report on COVID-19 and women migrant workers: Impacts and Implications by IOM
Female labor force participation in developing countries by Sher Verick
COVID-19 has deepened Indonesia’s gender inequality by the COVID-19 taskforce, Jakarta Post
Reports on Gender & COVID-19 from the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS)
COVID-19 and Gender Equality: Six Actions for the Private Sector by International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
A report on Counting the costs of COVID-19: Assessing the impact on gender and the achievement of the SDGs in Indonesia by UN Women
A New Normal for Data Collection: Using the Power of Community to Tackle Gender Violence Amid COVID-19 by Stefaan Verhulst
A technical note: Gender-Responsive Social Protection During COVID-19 by Unicef
Gender Inequality and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Human Development Perspective: A Human Development perspective by UNDP
A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women by Sophie Cousins
COVID-19 takes a toll on women. What are governments doing? By Silke Staab, Constanza Tabbush and Laura Turquet
COVID-19 is stifling NGO efforts to promote gender equality when it’s most needed by Andrea Paras
The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Hurt Women Most by Elisa Martinuzzi
COVID-19 widens gender gap in labor force participation in some but not other advanced economies by Simeon Djankov and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang
Researching Gender Inequalities in Academic Labour during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Avoiding Common Problems and Asking Different Questions by Maria do Mar Pereira
Women working on the front line by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
COVID-19 is stifling NGO efforts to promote gender equality when it’s most needed by Andrea ParasThe COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying by Dina Gerdeman
Will the Pandemic Exacerbate or Mitigate the Digital Gender Gap? By Parul Tandon & Sonal Jaitly
A report on COVID-19 and women migrant workers: Impacts and Implications by IOM
Female labor force participation in developing countries by Sher Verick
COVID-19 has deepened Indonesia’s gender inequality by the COVID-19 taskforce, Jakarta Post
A technical note: Gender-Responsive Social Protection During COVID-19 by Unicef
Gender Inequality and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Human Development Perspective: A Human Development perspective by UNDP
A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women by Sophie Cousins
COVID-19 takes a toll on women. What are governments doing? By Silke Staab, Constanza Tabbush and Laura Turquet
Women Pay the Price of COVID-19 More than Men
The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Hurt Women Most by Elisa Martinuzzi
COVID-19 Widens Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation in Some but not Other Advanced Economies by Simeon Djankov and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang
Researching Gender Inequalities in Academic Labour during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Avoiding Common Problems and Asking Different Questions by Maria do Mar Pereira
Women Working on the Front Line by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Unemployment and the Gendered Economy in South Africa after Covid-19 by David Francis
Gender in the Time of COVID-19: Evaluating National Leadership and COVID-19 Fatalities by Leah C. Windsor , Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Alistair J. Windsor, Robert Ostergard,Susan Allen,Courtney Burns,Jarod Giger, Reed Wood
COVID-19 Widens the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation by Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Marie Hyland and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang
Women, Business and the Law 2021: Women´s Economic Empowerment is Critical to Resilient Recovery Efforts by Norman Loayza and Tea Trumbic
The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Caused a Setback of Over a Decade in Labor Market Participation for Women in the Region by the New World Report
Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis by Leticia S. Machado, Clara Caldeira, Marcelo Gattermann Perin and Cleidson R.B. de Souza
Technical Note on Gender Norms by UNICEF
Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with Women in Mind by Antoinette Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, Vincent Tang
How Gender Parity can Make up Lost Ground after the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ruchi Bhowmik
COVID-19 is reversing the Important Gains Made over the Last Decade for Women in the Workforce by Ashley Worley
Covid-19 and Gender Equality: Employers Can Help Women From Being Unfairly Punished for Challenges They Face by Michele Ruiz
UNDP and ILO Launch a Joint Pilot Project to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment by UNDP
In India’s Villages Women SHG Members Provide Vital Banking Services During the COVID-19 Crisis by the World Bank
To Keep Women in the Workforce, Men Need to Do More at Home by Daniel L. Carlson, Richard J. Petts, Joanna Pepin
Class Notes: COVID-19 and Women’s Labor, the Care Economy, and More by Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves
Why We Need Gender-Responsive Central Banking by Anita Bhatia
Gender, Race and Parenthood Impact Academic Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Survey to Action by Fernanda Staniscuaski et al.
World Leaders Must Put Women at Centre of COVID-19 Recovery by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Has the Pandemic Revealed the Gendered Fault-lines in India’s Labour Markets? by Mitali Nikore and Poorva Prabhu
UN Gender Equality Forum Will Focus on Labor, Exclusion by DW News
Gender Gaps within Couples: Evidence of Time Re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina by Victoria Costoya, Lucía Echeverría, María Edo, Ana Rocha and Agustina Thailinger
Why Covid-19 Became a Women’s Problem in Urban India by Mitali Nikore
Women Did Three Times as Much Child Care as Men During Pandemic by Shera Avi-Yonah
COVID-19 Accelerates Existing Decline in Fertility Rates by Sara Matthews