{"id":8122,"date":"2020-11-23T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2023-08-07T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:09:09","slug":"strengthening-pandemic-preparedness-and-response-begins-with-answering-the-question-where-are-the-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/strengthening-pandemic-preparedness-and-response-begins-with-answering-the-question-where-are-the-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response begins with answering the question: Where are the women?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CLARE WENHAM, SUMEGHA ASTHANA, ARUSH LAL, ROOPA DHATT, MAIKE VOSS, ALEXANDRA PHELAN AND\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/sara-davies\/\">SARA E DAVIES<\/a>  |  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01436597.2015.1108827?journalCode=ctwq20\">&nbsp;the&nbsp;Ebola<\/a>&nbsp;and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15265161.2016.1177367\">&nbsp;Zika<\/a>&nbsp;epidemics clearly demonstrated that disease outbreaks affect<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02006-z\">&nbsp;women<\/a>&nbsp;differently to men, while also differentially impacting non-binary genders and transgender persons. The impacts have been amplified now by a wealth of studies and experiences from COVID-19 across the world. Importantly, these effects are not the result of the virus per se, but a result of the policies that are created and implemented to respond to emerging pathogens, which are gender-neutral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This exclusion of gender considerations masks an explicit<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.lse.ac.uk\/105824\/\">&nbsp;bias against women<\/a>. It is women that are then disproportionately impacted; through providing additional labour, whether paid as healthcare workers or unpaid within homes and communities; through higher risk of infection; through fear of financial hardship; through increased risk of gender-based or sexual violence; through distortion of health systems, disruptions to sexual and reproductive health provision; and through increasing rates of disproportionately high mental health issues among women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is all in the context of women being marginalised in<a href=\"https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/5\/10\/e003549\">&nbsp;decision making<\/a>&nbsp;and powerlessness within health systems, which is further exacerbated in health security.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/11\/20\/strengthening-pandemic-preparedness-and-response-begins-with-answering-the-question-where-are-the-women\/\">Strengthening pandemic preparedness and response begins with answering the question: Where are the women?<\/a>&#8221; article published at The BMJ, written by Clare Wenham, Sumegha Asthana, Arush Lal, Roopa Dhatt, Maike Voss, Alexandra Phelan and Griffith Asia Institute member, Sara E Davies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLARE WENHAM, SUMEGHA ASTHANA, ARUSH LAL, ROOPA DHATT, MAIKE VOSS, ALEXANDRA PHELAN AND\u00a0SARA E DAVIES | Research from&nbsp;the&nbsp;Ebola&nbsp;and&nbsp;Zika&nbsp;epidemics clearly demonstrated that disease outbreaks affect&nbsp;women&nbsp;differently to men, while also differentially impacting non-binary genders and transgender persons. 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