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Lockdown 3.0 will disproportionately affect #women, and #ukgov isnt doing enough to mitigate this unequal impact.
A thread on what we know from the last year *and before
A thread on what we know from the last year *and before
According to @ONS women did 2/3rds additional childcare duties + spent more time on unpaid work + less time on paid work than men during lockdown1.0
ONS also show that women did more non-developmental care than men (i.e. cooking, washing, not playing)
http://shorturl.at/gjrCY
ONS also show that women did more non-developmental care than men (i.e. cooking, washing, not playing)
http://shorturl.at/gjrCY
Whether due to gendered work sectors, or requests owing to additional childcare: women more likely to be furloughed than men according to @WomensBudgetGrp meaning 20% income reduction https://wbg.org.uk/analysis/uk-policy-briefings/hmrc-data-prompts-concern-of-gender-furlough-gap/
For those ineligible for furlough, we saw increased unemployment for women compared to men during 2020. (a trend replicated across Europe and N. America)
https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14860
https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14860
Some of this was due to lack of childcare - @The_TUC found 2/5 working mothers struggling w/out formal or informal childcare arrangements to do their routine work, forcing 1/6 to reduce working hours (and pay) https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/forced-out-cost-getting-childcare-wrong
Decisions about childcare and paid employment based on gendered norms, #genderpaygap and feminised sectors (i.e. which sectors of the economy shutdown) - retail, education, hospitality etc.
+ amid this Gov stopped Genderpaygap reporting https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2020/mar-2020/covid-19-gender-pay-gap-reporting-deadlines-suspended
+ amid this Gov stopped Genderpaygap reporting https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2020/mar-2020/covid-19-gender-pay-gap-reporting-deadlines-suspended
This was most acute for single parents (90% are women) - with 1/10th single parents lost job 1/3rd furloughed, dramatic reduction of paid hours - leaving up to 44% children in single parent households in poverty read work by @Gingerbread https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/policy-campaigns/publications-index/tackling-single-parent-poverty-after-coronavirus/
This has longer term consequences - data from @orianabandiera post Ebola showed that economic security remained precarious:
13 months post crisis: 63% men returned to work compared to 17% women
https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Bandiera-et-al-2018-Working-Paper_rev-Dec-2018.pdf
13 months post crisis: 63% men returned to work compared to 17% women
https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Bandiera-et-al-2018-Working-Paper_rev-Dec-2018.pdf
Beyond economics, women were subject to increased risk of domestic violence, both formally reported (below) and informally thru proxy measures - 49% 
in calls to hotlines and 3 x rate of femicide compared to prev years
http://shorturl.at/szLMY
in calls to hotlines and 3 x rate of femicide compared to prev yearshttp://shorturl.at/szLMY
Lockdown also reduced women seeking #SRH services + perinatal care (both supply and demand factors) leading to risks of unwanted pregnancy and potential for poorer birth outcomes https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.16547
unwanted pregnancy and potential for poorer birth outcomes https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.16547
Barriers to accessing #SRH services are a problem globally during #COVID19 - but mainly as a result of stay at home orders, appointment cancellations or women not wanting to burden health system/risk transmission https://www.guttmacher.org/report/early-impacts-covid-19-pandemic-findings-2020-guttmacher-survey-reproductive-health
The result of all of this - is that during lockdown women experience greater anxiety and mental health concerns -
What can we do now to minimise these? https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/why-has-covid-19-impacted-the-mental-health-and-wellbeing-of-women-the-most
What can we do now to minimise these? https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/why-has-covid-19-impacted-the-mental-health-and-wellbeing-of-women-the-most
And finally, whilst the pandemic impacts are heavily gendered, let's not forget that the frontline healthcare workforce responding to #COVID19 is disproportionately female: 77 per cent of the NHS workforce are women https://www.nhsemployers.org/engagement-and-networks/health-and-care-women-leaders-network/women-in-the-nhs
We need @10DowningStreet @RishiSunak to recognise this impact on women and take meaningful steps to prevent #lockdown3 impacting them in the same ways when the evidence is out there. https://twitter.com/clarewenham/status/1344236709198901248?s=20
We are researching this @Gender_COVID19 (alongside gendered impacts in many other countries). Some initial findings are here: https://twitter.com/Gender_COVID19/status/1346387247499796480?s=20
