Gendered Impacts of COVID-19

News & op-eds on gendered impact of COVID-19

Dec 3	AM, ABC Radio	Women in STEM copping brunt of COVID's hit to careers
May 11	WGEA	Gendered impact of COVID-19
April 30	Julia Gillard for the Global Institute for Women's Leadership	The impacts of Covid-19 are gendered – but there may be cause for hope
April 22	The Lily	This state says it has a ‘feminist economic recovery plan.’ Here’s what that looks like. The state wants ‘to build a system that is capable of delivering gender equality’
April 20	World Bank Blogs	The coronavirus is not gender-blind, nor should we be
April 19	VoxEU	The Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on gender equality
April 18	Forbes	Coronavirus And The Gender Pay Gap: An Excuse To Avoid Uncomfortable Facts
April 14	The Lighthouse, Macquarie University	Pandemic's economic blow hits women hard
April 12	The Guardian	Coronavirus pandemic exacerbates inequalities for women, UN warns
April 3	BuzzFeed News	How Trans And Nonbinary People Are Coping Right Now
April 3	Vox	Coronavirus isn’t transphobic. But America’s economic and health systems are.
April 3	Fortune	Economics of a pandemic: In times of distress, girls and women are the biggest losers
April 2	Forbes	How Economic Fallout From The Coronavirus May Disproportionately Affect Women
April 1	UN Conference on Trade and Development	COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies
March 23	Newsweek	The Unexpected Way the Coronavirus Is Hurting Some Members of The Trans Community
March 20	The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute	Why gender matters in the impact and recovery from Covid-19
March 19	The Atlantic	The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
March 8	BBC News	Coronavirus: Five ways virus upheaval is hitting women in Asia
March 6	The Lancet	COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak
Feb 4	Think Global Health	Gender and the Coronavirus Outbreak

Higher education research focus

April 24	The Lily	Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus. ‘Never seen anything like it,’ says one editor.
April 17	Nature	The pandemic and the female academic
May 17	Australian Academy of Science	The impact of COVID-19 on women in the STEM workforce

Policy briefs for COVID-19 responses

	Male Champions of Change	Leading on gender equality during the COVID-19 crisis
	World Bank Group	Gender dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic
March 31	Queen Mary University of London	Beyond sex and gender analysis: an intersectional view of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and response
	UN Women	The impact of COVID-19 on women

Flexible work guidance for COVID-19

Queensland Government	Flexible work and COVID-19
Unicef	Guidance for Employers on Flexible Work Arrangements and Other Good Workplace Practices (COVID-19)
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK	Flexible working essentials in the COVID-19 context