General Women in Global Health

(2020) COVID-19 Global Health Security Depends on Women: Rebalancing the unequal social contract for women

WHO (2020) Gender and COVID-19 Advocacy Brief

UN Women (2020) From Action to Insight. Gender Equality in the Wake of COVID-19

UN Women (2020) Spotlight on Gender, COVID-19 and the SDGs: Will the pandemic derail hard-won progress on gender equality?

UNFPA (2020) COVID-19: A gender lens: protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights, and promoting gender equality

UN Secretary General (2020) Shared responsibility, global solidarity: responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

World Economic Forum (2020) Global Gender Gap Report

Symptoms of a broken system: the gender gaps in COVID-19 decision-making

The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19

Policy Brief – Strengthen gender mainstreaming in WHO ́s pandemic preparedness and response 

Ask 1 Including women in global health security decision-making structures and public discourse

Coscieme, L et al (2020) Women in power: Female leadership and public health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.13.20152397. Posted July 16, 2020 

Chamorro-Premuzic, T and Wittenberg-Cox, A. (2020) Will the Pandemic Reshape Notions of Female Leadership”. Harvard Business Review. 26 June 2020

UN Women (2020) Policy Brief 18: COVID-19 and women’s leadership: from an effective response to building back better

Bali S, Dhatt R, Lal A, et al. (2020) Off the back burner: diverse and gender inclusive decision-making for COVID-19 response and recovery. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002595. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2020-002595

Dhatt, R and Keeling A (2020) Women’s expertise has been excluded from the Covid-19 response, in Essays on Equality, Kings College London

WHO Gender Equity Hub (2020) Gender, Equity and Leadership in the Global Health and Social Workforce, Policy Brief

Ask 2 Providing health workers, most of whom are women, with safe and decent working conditions

WHO (2019)  Delivered by Women, Led by Men: A Gender and Equity Analysis of the Global Health Workforce by the Global Health Workforce Network’s Gender Equity Hub co-chaired by WHO and Women in Global Health

Hu, Deing et al (2020) Frontline nurses’ burnout, anxiety, depression, and fear statuses and their associated factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, EClinical Medicine, June 26, 2020 DOI 

Boniol et al (2019)  Gender equity in the health workforce: analysis of 104 countries. WHO

ILO (International Labour Organization) (2020) COVID-19 and the world of work. 4th edition Geneva

Ask 3 Bringing women’s unpaid work into the formal labor market and redistributing unpaid family care

Langer, A et al (2015) Women and Health: The Key for Sustainable Development, Lancet 386

UN Women (2020) COVID-19 and the Care Economy

Hindustan Times (2020) Covid-19: Female health workers on India’s frontline push for fair pay 28 August 2020

UN Women (2016) Redistributing unpaid care and sustaining quality care services: a prerequisite for gender equality

ILO (2018) Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work, ILO Geneva

Ask 4 Adopt a gender-sensitive approach to health security data collection/analysis and response management

UN Women (2020) Unlocking the lockdown: The gendered effects of COVID-19 on achieving the SDGs in Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok

Global Health 5050 (2020) COVID-19 data on infections and mortality and Infections in health workers by sex

Guttmacher Institute (2020) COVID-19 outbreak: Potential fallout for sexual and reproductive health and rights.

UN Women (2020) Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Women

Sochas, L et al (2017) Counting indirect crisis-related deaths in the context of a low-resilience health system: the case of maternal and neonatal health during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone”. Health policy and planning 32

UNFPA (2020) New UNFPA projections predict calamitous impact on women’s health as COVID-19 pandemic rages on, Press Release 28 April 2020

Ask 5 Fund women’s movements – especially women’s organizations in low- and middle-income countries

OECD/DAC (2019) Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment; Donor Charts 

OECD DAC Gendernet (2020) Aid Focussed on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

AWID (2019) Towards a feminist funding ecosystem