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Author: Agnes Meroka Mutua Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
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The COVID -19 pandemic in Kenya is unfolding in a context in which gender is socially and culturally constructed. The construction of gender that existed before the onslaught of COVID-19 is informing the way in which the pandemic affects men and women. Indeed, men and women are experiencing the pandemic in different ways. The government has taken varied measures to contain the pandemic and mitigate its adverse effects. These measures have however been generally framed in gender neutral terms. This ignores the fact that the pandemic and the measures taken by the government to address it are gendered and produce different outcomes for men and women. The framing of responses in gender neutral terms limits their capacity to contain the pandemic and mitigate its adverse impacts. Women have historically been disadvantaged and borne the brunt of gender discrimination and inequality thus it is important to analyze how existing forms of gender inequality affect women's experiences of the pandemic. Further, COVID-19 is revealing specific ways in which men suffer discrimination on the basis of their gender, hence highlighting the importance of analyzing the impact of the pandemic using masculinity as a lens. Using several theoretical approaches and drawing from discussions with different stakeholders, this paper analyses the government of Kenya responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and reveals the ways in which those responses are gendered. It further makes proposals on how Kenya can be better prepared to address future pandemics and disasters, by addressing current forms of gender inequality and adopting gender analyses in interventions.
Author: Agnes Meroka Mutua Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 42
Book Description
The COVID -19 pandemic in Kenya is unfolding in a context in which gender is socially and culturally constructed. The construction of gender that existed before the onslaught of COVID-19 is informing the way in which the pandemic affects men and women. Indeed, men and women are experiencing the pandemic in different ways. The government has taken varied measures to contain the pandemic and mitigate its adverse effects. These measures have however been generally framed in gender neutral terms. This ignores the fact that the pandemic and the measures taken by the government to address it are gendered and produce different outcomes for men and women. The framing of responses in gender neutral terms limits their capacity to contain the pandemic and mitigate its adverse impacts. Women have historically been disadvantaged and borne the brunt of gender discrimination and inequality thus it is important to analyze how existing forms of gender inequality affect women's experiences of the pandemic. Further, COVID-19 is revealing specific ways in which men suffer discrimination on the basis of their gender, hence highlighting the importance of analyzing the impact of the pandemic using masculinity as a lens. Using several theoretical approaches and drawing from discussions with different stakeholders, this paper analyses the government of Kenya responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and reveals the ways in which those responses are gendered. It further makes proposals on how Kenya can be better prepared to address future pandemics and disasters, by addressing current forms of gender inequality and adopting gender analyses in interventions.
Author: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 9780309268370 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages :
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The spring of 2020 marked a change in how almost everyone conducted their personal and professional lives, both within science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global scientific conferences and individual laboratories and required people to find space in their homes from which to work. It blurred the boundaries between work and non-work, infusing ambiguity into everyday activities. While adaptations that allowed people to connect became more common, the evidence available at the end of 2020 suggests that the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic endangered the engagement, experience, and retention of women in academic STEMM, and may roll back some of the achievement gains made by women in the academy to date. Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM identifies, names, and documents how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the careers of women in academic STEMM during the initial 9-month period since March 2020 and considers how these disruptions - both positive and negative - might shape future progress for women. This publication builds on the 2020 report Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nuanced ways these disruptions have manifested. Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM will inform the academic community as it emerges from the pandemic to mitigate any long-term negative consequences for the continued advancement of women in the academic STEMM workforce and build on the adaptations and opportunities that have emerged.
Author: Asian Development Bank Publisher: Asian Development Bank ISBN: 9292705237 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 138
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Examining how the livelihoods, health, and well-being of women in Central and West Asia were disproportionately affected by the pandemic, this report assesses responses and considers how the experience can guide gender mainstreaming. Emphasizing the need for better granular data, it looks at intersecting vulnerabilities and how policies that prioritize women’s economic security and strengthen social protection can better insulate them against future shocks.
Author: Bryan, Elizabeth Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 96
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts in every part of the world, including on vulnerable populations in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. This report explores the ways in which men and women in rural areas of four countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)—Kenya, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda—experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and associated income losses, as well as their responses to the crisis. To identify and monitor the differential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and men in rural households, IFPRI conducted phone surveys in selected regions of the four focal countries, with financial and technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The surveys traced gender differences in responses to the pandemic and associated restrictions, such as choice of coping strategies, access to public assistance, and changes in the care burden for men and women.
Author: Alvi, Muzna Fatima Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 144
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It is widely recognized that periods of crisis affect men and women differently, mediated by their access to resources and information, as well as social and institutional structures that may systematically disadvantage women from being able to access relief, institutional support, and rehabilitation. To capture the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, we conducted phone surveys in seven countries spread across Asia and Africa. The study was designed as a longitudinal panel study with five rounds of data collection in Ghana, Nepal, Nigeria, and Senegal, and three rounds of data collection in Kenya, Niger, and Uganda. Both men and women were administered the same survey, with some modifications made across countries to adapt to local contexts. This report gives an overview of our findings covering several topics including income loss, coping strategies, labor and time use, food and water insecurity and child education outcomes. We find widespread reports of income loss, which declined over time, but increased again as countries experienced a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and fatality. We find that households first depleted savings when faced with income loss and over time, use of savings reduced while other measures began to be adopted. Women reported greater food and water insecurity compared to men, including worrying about insufficient food and eating less than usual. This is particularly worrying since a large proportion of women also did not have adequately diverse diets. Moderate to severe water insecurity was reported in many of the countries, and as with food insecurity, women were more likely to report issues with accessing water for drinking and other household activities. In some countries, additional modules were added to capture country specific issues of policy relevance, such agriculture extension, mental health, and child marriage. The results make it clear that proactive investments will be needed, including social safety nets, favorable credit policies, nutrition and water investments, to ensure that the crisis does not further widen the gender gap in resources and achievements in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries.
Author: Rita Stephan Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477326545 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 329
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As the coronavirus ravages the globe, its aftermaths have brought gender inequalities to the forefront of many conversations. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been slow to prepare for, adapt to, and mitigate the COVID-19 health crisis and its impacts on governance, economics, security, and rights. Women’s physical well-being, social safety nets, and economic participation have been disproportionately affected, and with widespread shutdowns and capricious social welfare programs, women are exiting the workplace and the classroom, carrying the caregiving burden. With feminist foregrounding, Rita Stephan's collection COVID and Gender in the Middle East gathers an impressive group of local scholars, activists, and policy experts. The book examines a range of national and localized responses to gender-specific issues around COVID’s health impact and the economic fallout and resulting social vulnerabilities, including the magnified marginalization of Syrian refugees; the inequitable treatment of migrant workers in Bahrain; and the inadequate implementation of gender-based violence legislation in Morocco. An essential global resource, this book is the first to provide empirical evidence of COVID’s gendered effects.
Author: Barbara J. Risman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199324417 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 377
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Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. Some are true believers that men and women are essentially different and should be so. Others are innovators, defying stereotypes and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices. Perhaps new to this generation are gender rebels who reject sex categories, often refusing to present their bodies within them and sometimes claiming genderqueer identities. And finally, many youths today are simply confused by all the changes swirling around them. As a new generation contends with unsettled gender norms and expectations, Risman reminds us that gender is much more than an identity; it also shapes expectations in everyday life, and structures the organization of workplaces, politics, and, ideology. To pursue change only in individual lives, Risman argues, risks the opportunity to eradicate both gender inequality and gender as a primary category that organizes social life.
Author: Clare Wenham Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197556930 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 297
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"Global health security, focused on a firefighting short-term response efforts fail to consider the differential impacts of outbreaks on women. For example, the policy response to the Zika outbreak centred on limiting the spread of the vector through civic participation and asking women to defer pregnancy. Both actions are inherently gendered and reveal a distinct lack of consideration of the everyday lives of women. These policies placed women in a position whereby were blamed if they had a child born with Congenital Zika Syndrome, and at the same time governments required women to undertake invisible labour for vector control. What does this tell us about the role of women in global health security? This feminist critique of the Zika outbreak, argues that global health security has thus far lacked a substantive feminist engagement, with the result that the very policies created to manage an outbreak of disease disproportionately fail to protect women. Women are both differentially infected and affected by epidemics. Yet, the dominant policy narrative of global health security has created pathways which focus on protecting the international spread of disease to state economies, rather than protecting those who are most at risk. As such, the state-based structure of global health security provides the fault-line for global health security and women. This book highlights the ways in which women are disadvantaged by global health security policy, through engagement with feminist security studies concepts of visibility; social and stratified reproduction; intersectionality; and structural violence. It argues that it was no coincidence that poor, black women living in low quality housing were the most affected by the Zika outbreak and will continue to be so, until global health security is gender mainstreamed. More broadly, I ask what would global health policy look like if it were to take gender seriously, and how would this impact global disease control sustainability?"--
Author: Hidrobo, Melissa Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages :
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As social protection programs and systems adapt to mitigate against the COVID-19 crisis, gender considerations are likely to be overlooked in an urgent effort to save lives and provide critical economic support. Yet, past research and learning indicates that small adaptations to make program design and implementation more gender-sensitive may result in overall and equality-related gains. We summarize some of these considerations for LMICs across five areas: 1) Adapting existing schemes and social protection modality choice, 2) targeting, 3) benefit level and frequency, 4) delivery mechanisms and operational features, and 5) complementary programming. It is our hope that COVID-19 will be an opportunity to address, and not exacerbate, pre-existing gender inequalities and lay the groundwork for more gender-sensitive social protection programming in LMICs beyond the crisis, building toward the wellbeing of societies as a whole.
Author: Agnes Meroka Mutua
Author: Agnes Meroka Mutua
Author: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri
Author: Asian Development Bank
Author: Bryan, Elizabeth
Author: Alvi, Muzna Fatima
Author: Rita Stephan
Author: Barbara J. Risman
Author: Clare Wenham
Author: Jessica Duncan
Author: Hidrobo, Melissa