#ICYMI: With some help from her daughter Scarlett
, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy @clarewenham shows the challenges facing women & families amid the pandemic.
Incidentally, this is exactly the focus of Clare's research.
#thread https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1278356539468853248

Incidentally, this is exactly the focus of Clare's research.

What does gender have to do with pandemics?
Listen to Dr Wenham on our LSEIQ #podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CH1GI4DTDW32yjCGfXARP

On crises presenting opportunities for gendered change: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/04/15/covid-19-is-an-opportunity-for-gender-equality-within-the-workplace-and-at-home/
On the extra burdens that fall on women during the pandemic, and how they are more willing to comply with lockdown measures. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/women-willing-comply-lockdown-panamas-sex-segregation-experiment/
On parents' money worries: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/coronavirus-half-of-uk-parents-with-young-children-face-money-woes-survey
On the extra financial and psychological burden that falls on BAME women: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/08/coronavirus-uk-bame-women-suffer-harder-financial-hit
On racial inequalities within the health sector: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/08/if-the-uk-health-sector-does-not-address-structural-racism-then-more-black-and-minority-ethnic-lives-will-be-lost/
On the COVID-19 crisis exposing the effects of government neglect on Britain’s public health strategies: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/01/uk-global-leader-pandemics-coronavirus-covid-19-crisis-britain
On what went wrong in the US and the UK: https://time.com/5861697/us-uk-failed-coronavirus-response/
On tension between public health and social control in El Salvador, via @LSE_LACC: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2020/04/13/covid-19-in-el-salvador-safeguarding-public-health-or-restricting-human-rights/