• EU & Internationaal,
• Wetenschappelijk

• Infectieziekten,
• Diversiteit

Tracking the Gender Impact of COVID-19

An Indicator Framework

It is known that the coronavirus pandemic is not gender-blind; it affects men and women differently and may exacerbate gender inequalities. Yet our knowledge of the gender impact of COVID-19 — and the varied ways it directly and indirectly affects different demographic groups — is incomplete due to data gaps across economic, education, health, and social dimensions.

We also know that gender roles will help shape adaptive responses to the pandemic, but it is unclear whether we have the necessary granular information (on regions, sectors, coverage, and severity) to design effective, gender-informed mitigation and recovery policies. To better understand what data exist, and where there are key gaps, Data2X and Open Data Watch have launched a joint, ongoing review of the principal international databases to understand how well we can track the gender impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

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