Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men

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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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD
FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS
SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISE
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CORONAVIRUS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/329391606317076359/Women-Endure-COVID-19-Unequally-to-Men
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spelling okr-10986-348882021-04-23T14:02:10Z Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men World Bank FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISE FOOD SECURITY NUTRITION VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CORONAVIRUS 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. 2020-12-07T17:58:20Z 2020-12-07T17:58:20Z 2020-11-20 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/329391606317076359/Women-Endure-COVID-19-Unequally-to-Men http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34888 English Myanmar COVID-19 Monitoring; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study East Asia and Pacific Myanmar
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FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS
SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISE
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CORONAVIRUS
spellingShingle FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD
FEMALE-OWNED BUSINESS
SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISE
FOOD SECURITY
NUTRITION
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CORONAVIRUS
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Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
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description 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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author World Bank
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title Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
title_short Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
title_full Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
title_fullStr Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
title_full_unstemmed Women Endure COVID-19 Unequally to Men
title_sort women endure covid-19 unequally to men
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/329391606317076359/Women-Endure-COVID-19-Unequally-to-Men
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