Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
The adverse impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is being disproportionately borne by women, further exacerbating the wide gender inequities in Myanmar. From food security, shortages in finances and the burden of caretaking responsibilitie...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/329391606317076359/Women-Endure-COVID-19-Unequally-to-Men http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34888 |
| Summary: | The adverse impact of the Coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic is being disproportionately borne by
women, further exacerbating the wide gender inequities in
Myanmar. From food security, shortages in finances and the
burden of caretaking responsibilities, women have been
disproportionately affected by the secondary impacts of the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Women have had to adopt
more drastic measures to mitigate the impacts of the
pandemic, both reactively and proactively, ranging from
reducing food- and non-food consumption and borrowing money
from Micro-Finance Institutions and informal money lenders.
Not unexpectedly, women’s greater disadvantage, limited
access to support, subjection to domestic violence and
structural inequalities lend themselves to their being less
optimistic about the near future. The evidence surveyed is
clear that women are enduring Coronavirus (COVID-19)
disproportionately worse than men, both in household and
firm settings and they take on the bulk of the emotional
burden with regard to responsive and proactive coping mechanisms. |
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