
Resources
COVID-19 AND GENDER
REPORTS, STATEMENTS AND GUIDELINES
100 Women Experts working in Health Security
WGH and WCAPS, August 2020
Five asks for Global Health Security, now and in the future
Women in Global Health, August 2020
Letter to G20 Leaders on Healthy Recovery
Healthyrecovery.net, 26 May 2020
The impact of sex and gender in the COVID-19 pandemic: Case Study
Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, May 2020, European Commission
COVID-19 AND MEN: CALL FOR ACTION. A statement by Global Action on Men’s Health
Global Action on Men’s Health, May 2020
WHO Gender and COVID-19 Advocacy Brief
WHO, 14 May 2020
COVID-19: Ensure women’s access to sexual and reproductive health and rights
Council of Europe, 7 May 2020
Government offices of Sweden, 6 May 2020
Vulnerability Amplified: The Impact of The Covid-19 Pandemic on LGBTIQ People
OutRight Action International, 6 May 2020
PAHO, 30 April 2020
Gendered Impacts of the Pandemic in Palestine and Implications for Policy and Programming - Findings of a Rapid Gender Analysis of COVID-19 in Palestine
UN Women, 30 April 2020
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic must not discount women and girls
OHCHR, April 2020
Mapping of online articles on Covid-19 and Gender
UNESCO, 21 April 2020
Addressing Human Rights as Key to the COVID-19 Response
WHO, 21 April 2020
GENDRO, 17 April 2020
EASE Statement on Quality Standards
EASE, 7 April 2020
COVID-19 and violence against women
WHO, 7 April 2020
COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies
Isabelle Durant and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, 1 April 2020, UNCTAD
The recovery from the COVID-19 crisis must lead to a different economy
António Guterres, 31 March 2020, United Nations
IASC, 31 March 2020
Call for a Feminist COVID-19 Policy
Feminist Alliance for Rights, March 2020, FAR
The COVID-19 Outbreak and Gender: Key Advocacy Points from Asia and the Pacific
UN Women, March 2020
NEWS STORIES
Gender and Covid-19 vaccines: Lack of data on gender differences could impact rollout
Aline Bottin, Annette Young, Camille Pauvarel, Stéphanie Cheval, 4 December 2020, France24
How anti-ageing drugs could boost COVID vaccines in older people
Cassandra Willyard, 14 October 2020, Nature
Most countries failing women and girls with Covid response, UN finds
Liz Ford, 29 September 2020, The Guardian
Not accounting for sex differences in Covid research could be deadly
Natalie Grover, 25 September 2020, The Guardian
Sex differential in COVID-19 mortality varies markedly by age
22 August 2020, The lancet
Women are on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19
Rachel Jones, 24 July 2020, National Geographic
Promised, Mostly Never Paid: Rs 1,000 Covid Wage
Bhanupriya Rao, 10 June 2020, article14
Distress Among Health Workers In Covid-19 Fight
Bhanupriya Rao & Saumya Tewari, 9 June 2020, article14
'If I don't have sex I'll die of hunger': Covid-19 crisis for Rio's trans sex workers
Dom Phillips and Ian Cheibub, 21 May 2020, The Guardian
Health workers become unexpected targets during COVID-19
11 May 2020, The Economist
Black people four times more likely to die from Covid-19, ONS finds
Robert Booth and Caelainn Barr, 7 May 2020, The Guardian
Sexism on the Covid-19 frontline: 'PPE is made for a 6ft 3in rugby player'
Alexandra Topping, 24 April 2020, The Guardian
Caroline Kitchener, 24 April 2020, The Lily
UK cases of domestic abuse by female family members double
Gregory Robinson, 14 April 2020, The Guardian
Why Covid-19 is different for men and women
Martha Henriques,13th April 2020, BBC Future
Does Covid-19 Hit Women and Men Differently? U.S. Isn’t Keeping Track
Alisha Haridasani Gupta, 3 April 2020, NYT Gregory Robinson
Why This Economic Crisis Differs From the Last One for Women
Alisha Haridasani Gupta, 31 March 2020, NYT
The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Lebanon
Chebaro Abir, 26 March 2020, Daraj
Coronavirus puts women in the frontline
Here's why the coronavirus may be killing more men than women. The US should take note
Katie Polglase et al, 24 March 2020, CNN
The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
Helen Lewis, 19 March 2020, The Atlantic
As Cities Around the World Go on Lockdown, Victims of Domestic Violence Look for a Way Out
Sex-disaggregated data in COVID-19 vaccine trials
Lavanya Vijayasingham, Evelyne Bischof, Jeannette Wolfe, 5 March 2021, The Lancet
Endothelial dysfunction in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Gender and age influences
GuglielminaFroldi, PaolaDorigo, November 2020, Elsevier
Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report
John H. Beigel, Kay M. Tomashek, Lori E. Dodd, Aneesh K. Mehta, Barry S. Zingman, Andre C. Kalil, Elizabeth Hohmann, Helen Y. Chu, Annie Luetkemeyer, Susan Kline, Diego Lopez de Castilla, Robert W. Finberg, et al., 8 October 2020, NEJM Group
Gender differences in preventing the spread of coronavirus
Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, Anton Gollwitzer, Gabriele Oettingen, 4 October, 2020, Behavioral science and policy association
Symptoms of a broken system: the gender gaps in COVID-19 decision-making
Robin van Daalen, Csongor Bajnoczki, Maisoon Chowdhury, Sara Dada, Parnian Khorsand, Anna Socha, Arush Lal, Laura Jung, Lujain Alqodmani, Irene Torres, Samiratou Ouedraogo, Amina Jama Mahmud, Roopa Dhatt, Alexandra Phelan, Dheepa Rajan, 1 October 2020, BMJ
Seung Won Lee, Jee Myung Yang, Sung Yong Moon, In Kyung Yoo, Eun Kyo Ha, So Young Kim, et al, 27 September 2020, The Lancet
The influence of sex and gender domains on COVID-19 cases and mortality
Christina P. Tadiri, Teresa Gisinger, Alexandra Kautzy-Willer, Karolina Kublickiene, Maria Trinidad Herrero, Valeria Raparelli, Louise Pilote and Colleen M. Norris; for the GOING-FWD Consortium, 8 September 2020, CMAJ
Sex and gender differences in the outcome of patients with COVID-19
Shahab Falahi, Azra Kenarkoohi, 30 June 2020, Journal of Medical Virology
Impact of sex and gender on COVID-19 outcomes in Europe
Catherine Gebhard, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Hannelore K. Neuhauser, Rosemary Morgan & Sabra L. Klein, 25 May 2020, BMC
Amitava Banerjee, Laura Pasea, Steve Harris, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Ana Torralbo, Laura Shallcross, et al., 12 May 2020, The Lancet
Sex and Gender Differences in Health: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us
Primavera A. Spagnolo, JoAnn E. Manson, 8 May 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
Using Intersectionality to Understand Who Is Most at Risk of Covid-19
Professor Olena Hankivsky, University of Melbourne, 6 May 2020
Sex- and Gender-specific Observations and Implications for COVID-19
Lauren A. Walter, Alyson J. McGregor, 10 April 2020, PMC
Fanfan Zeng et al, 27 March 2020, medRxiv (pre-print)
Nianqi Liu et al, 16 March 2020, Elsevier
Huijun Chen, 07 March 2020, The Lancet
Gender differences in patients with COVID-19: Focus on severity and mortality
Jian-Min Jin et al, 05 March 2020, medRxiv (pre-print)
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
Titan Alon et al, March 2020, evolving project/publication
COMMENTARIES AND OPINION PIECES
Population preferences for inclusive COVID-19 policy responses
Thierry Blayac, Dimitri Dubois, Sebastien Duchêne, Phu Nguyen-Van, Bruno Ventelou, Marc Willinger, 7 December 2020, The Lancet
Pushing the boundaries of data to ensure gender equality across the life span
Jessica K Levy, Margaret E Greene, December 2020, The Lancet
Lindsay Stark, Melissa Meinhart, Luissa Vahedi, Simone E Carter, Elisabeth Roesch, Isabel Scott Moncrieff, Philomene Mwanze Palaku, Flore Rossi, Catherine Poulton, 18 November 2020, BMJ
COVID-19 and Sex-/Gender-Specific Differences: Understanding the Discrimination
Ariunzaya Amgalan, Ann Kinga Malinowski, Maha Othman, 3 September 2020, Thieme Medical Publishers
Sexist and incomplete data hold back the world’s Covid-19 response
Melinda Gates, 30 July 2020, Statnews
Derek M. Griffith, Garima Sharma, Christopher S. Holliday, Okechuku K. Enyia, Matthew Valliere, Andrea R. Semlow, Elizabeth C. Stewart, Roger Scott Blumenthal, 16 July 2020, CDC
Biological sex impacts COVID-19 outcomes
Sabra L. Klein ,Santosh Dhakal,Rebecca L. Ursin,Sharvari Deshpande,Kathryn Sandberg,Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, 22 June 2020, PLOS Pathogens
Contraception and reproductive planning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Edson Santos Ferreira-Filho ,Nilson Roberto de Melo,Isabel Cristina Esposito Sorpreso,Luis Bahamondes,Ricardo Dos Santos Simões,José Maria Soares-Júnior &Edmund Chada Baracat, 22 June 2020, Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
Coronavirus Coverage and the Silencing of Female Expertise
Teresa Carr, 22 June 2020, UNDARK
Hannah Briggs, 3 June 2020, Population Council
Evelyne Bischof, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, Rosemary Morgan, Sabra L. Klein,The Sex and Gender in COVID19 Clinical Trials Working Group (SGC) and Gender and COVID19 Working Group, May 25, 2020, MDPI
Attacks against health-care personnel must stop, especially as the world fights COVID-19
Donna McKay, Michele Heisler, Ranit Mishori, Howard Catton, Otmar Kloiber, May 20, 2020, The Lancet
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us
Primavera A. Spagnolo, MD, PhD, JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc, May 8 2020, ACP Journals
The Pandemic’s Gender Imperative
Ann Linde, Arancha Gonzalez, May 8, 2020, Project Syndicate
Gender Matters: Covid-19’s Outsized Impact On Displaced Women And Girls
Devon Cone, May 7, 2020, Refugees International
Impact of Covid-19 on Hijras, a Third-Gender Community in India
Ina Goel, May 4, 2020, Society for cultural Anthropology
A call for action for COVID-19 surveillance and research during pregnancy
Pierre Buekens, Jackeline Alger, Gérard Bréart, Maria Luisa Cafferata, Emily Harville, Giselle Tomasso, 22 April 2020, The Lancet
Sex and Gender Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jewel Gausman, ScD, MHS and Ana Langer, MD, April 2020, Journal of Women's Health
Women and COVID-19: Studying the Impact of Sex and Gender
Chloe E. Bird, Lori Frank, Andrew W. Dick, Melanie A. Zaber, Denise D. Quigley, Anula Jayasuriya, April 13, 2020, RAND blog
COVID-19 is an opportunity for gender equality within the workplace and at home
Clare Wenham, Julia Smith, Rosemary Morgan, 15 April 2020, BMJ Blogs
The gendered dimensions of COVID-19
Lancet Editorial, 11 April 2020, The Lancet
Why WHO needs a feminist economic agenda
Asha Herten-Crabb and Sara E Davies, 28 March 28 2020, The Lancet
Susan Papp and Mercy Hersh, 27 March 2020, Project Syndicate
Sex, gender and COVID-19: Disaggregated data and health disparities
Anna Purdie et al, 24 March 2020, in BMJ Global Health
Coronavirus: A Look at Gender Differences in Awareness and Actions
Brittni Frederiksen et al, 20 March, 2020, KFF
COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak
Clare Wenham, Julia Smith, Rosemary Morgan, 06 March 2020, The Lancet