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In this important book, experts assess what the COVID-19 pandemic means for gender inequalities in the global south, examining how threats to equitable development will impact the most marginalised and at-risk women and girls in particular.
The book draws on research across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to examine Covid-19-related issues around gender-based violence, work and care, education, and health care, and asks whether global responses are enough to mitigate the negative outcomes of deepening gender inequality. It is a guide to stimulate the important debate about how to promote women’s rights during the management and recovery phases of the pandemic.
-conformity, but the multiple intersectional differences between women, which means there is no unified experience of womanhood. Race, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, sexual orientation, migrant status and social class all contribute to how women experience the world and how (and if) policies address their needs and rights. Recognizing intersectional differences is fundamental, since these lead to different experiences of discrimination and privilege. Corus et al (2016 : 212–213) explain that ‘the more socially disadvantaged identity markers that a person possesses, the more
ethnicity, age, dis/ability, sexuality, migrant status, geography and – above all – poverty, exacerbates risk for many groups of women. COVID-19 has revealed the profound weaknesses in our governance systems at international and national levels. At the international level, since 1989, efforts have been made to construct a liberal system of global governance, based on a somewhat contradictory mix of systems that seek to balance markets versus regulation; Western-inspired values of human rights versus power politics; nationalism versus globalization; rhetorical
, 2020 ). Understanding the significance of the body – especially the female body – is a fundamental element of feminism because the level of autonomy and dignity we have in relation to our bodies deeply impacts upon all areas of life. This is more pronounced for people living in ‘marginalised bodies’ ( Shildrick and Price, 2017 : 2). How bodies are seen socially, culturally and politically contributes to the bases of discrimination that different groups face. It means that characteristics such as race, class and disability ‘intersect to constitute particular ways of
governments have implemented to address the heightened challenges of caregiving, we discover that while there have been some, these have fallen short of addressing that the problem is gendered, and women have been left with less support than they need. Throughout Latin America there have been policies implemented in the areas of: financial support and cash transfers (4); paid domestic workers’ rights (4); exemptions to curtailed movement (1); disability support (1); continued services (1); and licences and permits (4) ( ECLAC, 2020a ). However, none of these policies were
social services. Additionally, people’s intersectional characteristics, such as their race or ethnicity, age, (dis)ability and sexuality, as well as gender, leave them open to discrimination that shape their economic and social opportunities. The more axes of discrimination a person experiences, the more disproportionately affected they are by COVID-19. Women and girls marginalized through gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, place of origin, education, employment and culture tend to fare the worst. To understand the unequal distribution of risks
for a variety of community perspectives to feed into decision making, with an emphasis on the participation of groups that are vulnerable to both climate impacts and to the impacts of climate policies themselves. This will require, as a minimum, vulnerability, and risk assessments to be conducted for communities across the city to assess the projected impacts, feeding in the lived experiences of individuals from these groups. Civil society groups in Bristol, including the Black and Green Ambassadors and the Bristol Disability Equality Forum, are already working to
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