Women's Studies with Renee Schlueter

Despite women’s substantial presence in essential jobs, the disparity between total median earnings for women and men exists across occupations deemed essential.

(4/19/2020)

Women have suffered disproportionate job losses and challenges during the pandemic, reflecting deeper problems in the workplace that existed long before COVID. It's time for companies to take notice--and action.

The article discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women's employment. Topics discussed include significant decrease in women's participation in the labor force, employment rate for Black and Hispanic women, major factor in 2020 of job losses and gender inequality overall due to disproportionate caregiving burden shouldered by women and demoralization and frustration felt by women in workplaces.

The article discusses that COVID-19 Job Market Wreaks Havoc on Black Women. Topics discussed include the economy added jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 6%, there was reason to be optimistic about the trajectory of the labor market entering the second year of COVID-19; and there had been a steady decline in the unemployment rate for white workers, from 6% in December to 5.4% in March, with the rate for white males falling from 5.8% to 5.2%.

Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. During the pandemic, physicians in our hospital have had to respond both to the issue of treating the patients and the increasing domestic burden associated with social disruption. The purpose of this study was to assess how much the burden on our doctors, especially female doctors, was increasing.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly created widespread impacts on global health and the economy. Data suggest that women are less susceptible to severe illness. However, sex-disaggregated data are incomplete, leaving room for misinterpretation, and focusing only on biologic sex underestimates the gendered impact of the pandemic on women. This narrative review summarizes what is known about gender disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic, domestic, and health burdens along with overlapping vulnerabilities related to the pandemic. In addition, this review outlines recommended strategies that advocacy groups, community leaders, and policymakers should implement to mitigate the widening gender disparities related to COVID-19.

Objective: To describe how men and women divided childcare and housework demands during the height of the first Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, and whether these divisions were associated with worsening mental health during the pandemic.