{"id":7607,"date":"2020-07-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:14:48","slug":"women-are-most-affected-by-pandemics-lessons-from-past-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/women-are-most-affected-by-pandemics-lessons-from-past-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Women are most affected by pandemics \u2014 lessons from past outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/sara-davies\/\">SARA E DAVIES<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0HUIYUN FENG\u00a0|<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women are affected more than men by the social and economic effects of infectious-disease outbreaks. They bear the brunt of care responsibilities as schools close and family members fall ill<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup><sup>,<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup>. They are at greater risk of domestic violence<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR3\">3<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;and are disproportionately disadvantaged by reduced access to sexual- and reproductive-health services. Because women are more likely than men to have fewer hours of employed work and be on insecure or zero-hour contracts, they are more affected by job losses in times of economic instability<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a \u201chorrifying global surge in domestic violence\u201d since the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns, said United Nations secretary-general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in early April. Malaysia, for example, reported 57% more calls to domestic-abuse helplines between 18 March and 26 March. Moreover, sexual- and reproductive-health clinics are closing worldwide. Some US states have restricted access to abortions<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR4\">4<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is all too familiar. During outbreaks of Ebola and Zika viruses in the past few years, women\u2019s socio-economic security was upended<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup>, and for longer than men\u2019s<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>. During the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014\u201316, for example, quarantines closed markets for food and other items. This destroyed the livelihoods of traders in Sierra Leone and Liberia, 85% of whom were women<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR5\">5<\/a><\/sup>. Men lost jobs, too, but 63% had returned to work 13 months after the first case was detected. For women, the proportion was 17%<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, too little is known about the differential impacts of outbreaks on men and women. And that can leave political and policy responses flying blind. Only a minority of governments collect and share basic, disaggregated sex and gender data on cases of infectious disease and the socio-economic impacts of the response to outbreaks. Analysis remains high level, often conducted after the fact and with incomplete information (<a href=\"http:\/\/go.nature.com\/2a9gtja\">go.nature.com\/2a9gtja<\/a>). 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