Why do you assume that those people have not already rolled up their sleeves and are helping? Recognising that pandemics have gender impacts is part of the grunt work of responding to them, as the Lancet emphasises
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Recognition of the gendered impacts of the pandemic has everything to do with feminism, as it's feminism that's named and explored this. And yes, the pandemic may worsen gender inequalities. It's a shame that you equate this recognition with a 'woe is me' "victim dogma".
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'Step over dead men'? Whoah, settle down on the hyperbolic rhetoric. I've reposted pieces saying that the pandemic may worsen gender inequalities, but not saying that 'women will be most affected'. It's too early to comment on gendered patterns of illness and death.
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This pandemic infects all people as an equal opportunity disease. Nothing gendered about these issues at all, except for those invested in them.
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If gendered means disproportionate harm relative to a a gender’s portion of a population group, then COVID19 is gendered.pic.twitter.com/XuSbwMs75l
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Thanks for the data. Yes, that's one dimension of 'gendered'. Others would include how gender (e.g. behaviour & attitudes) shapes vulnerability, divisions of paid and unpaid labour in response to the pandemic, and many other issues.
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One can view anything through the myopic lense of critical theory and intersectional feminist theory… never a useful exercise, but it can be done.
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On the contrary, if men's sickness and death rates are higher than women's, then critical and intersectional feminist theories will help us understand why.
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