In this section you will find research, news and policy analysis related to women, gender and the economy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Five things the federal government can do to support women and economic growth [1]
Assiniboia Times, 19 August 2020
News coverage of childcare during covid-19: Where are women and gender? [2]
Politics & Gender, August 2020
2020: The school year we made women choose between work & care [3]
Romper, 11 August 2020
Study: COVID-19 associated with unemployment gap between Canadian mothers and fathers [4]
The Ubyssey, 18 August 2020
We’re sharing childcare: I’ve colour-coded each parent according to risk profile’ [5]
Financial Times, 2 August 2020
The economic impact of COVID-19 has disproportionately hit women [6]
The Hamilton Spectator, 31 July 2020
Pandemic threatens decades of women’s labour force gains [7]
RBC, 16 July 2020
Resetting normal: Women, decent work and Canada's fractured care economy [8]
Canadian Women’s Foundation, July 2020
COVID-19 and gender: A policy paper [9]
The University of Nortre Dame, 1 July 2020
COVID-19 and the gender employment gap among parents of young children [10]
Canadian Public Policy, July 2020
The nearly impossible balance for working mothers during pandemic [11]
Policy Options, 8 June 2020
We are losers in this crisis’: Research finds lockdowns reinforcing gender inequality [12]
The Guardian, 29 May 2020
‘I had to choose being a mother’” With no child care or summer camps, women are being edged out of the workforce [13]
The Lily, 22 May 2020
Reform maternity leave to meet the needs of modern women [14]
National Post, 20 May 2020
Have women disappeared from the messaging around child care? [15]
Policy Options, 11 March 2019
‘I feel like a 1950s housewife’: How lockdown has exposed the gender divide [16]
The Guardian, 3 May 2020
Women juggling with caregiving take brunt of pandemic labour impact [17]
CTV News, 1 May 2020
COVID-19 has laid bar how much we value women’s work, and how little we pay for it [18]
The Conversation, 21 April 2020, news article.
The COVID-19 recession will hurt women more, but it might nudge them toward equality [19]
Quartz, 15 April 2020, news article.
The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism [20]
The Atlantic, 27 Mach 2020
Links
[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/08/five-things-federal-government-can-do-support-women-and-economic
[2] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/20/08/news-coverage-childcare-during-covid-19-where-are-women-and
[3] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/08/2020-school-year-we-made-women-choose-between-work-care
[4] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/08/study-covid-19-associated-widening-unemployment-gap-between-canadian
[5] http://We’re sharing childcare: I’ve colour-coded each parent according to risk profile’
[6] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/08/economic-impact-covid-19-has-disproportionately-hit-women
[7] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/20/07/pandemic-threatens-decades-women%E2%80%99s-labour-force-gains
[8] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/20/07/resetting-normal-women-decent-work-and-canadas-fractured
[9] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/20/07/covid-19-and-gender-policy-paper
[10] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/07/covid-19-and-gender-employment-gap-among-parents-young-children
[11] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/06/nearly-impossible-balance-working-mothers-during-pandemic
[12] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/06/we-are-losers-crisis-research-finds-lockdowns-reinforcing-gender-ine
[13] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/%E2%80%98i-had-choose-being-mother%E2%80%99-no-child-care-or-summer-camps-women-are
[14] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/20/05/reform-maternity-leave-meet-needs-modern-women
[15] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/have-women-disappeared-messaging-around-child-care
[16] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/%E2%80%98i-feel-1950s-housewife%E2%80%99-how-lockdown-has-exposed-gender-divide
[17] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/women-juggling-caregiving-take-brunt-pandemic-labour-impact
[18] https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=78e6f3de3d44cb2db&q=https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-has-laid-bare-how-much-we-value-womens-work-and-how-little&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwivhOrD_PfzAhWwaDABHVbXBKQQFnoECAUQAg&usg=AOvVaw1rI4UZyuTUZ5cpT8cR3Uxo
[19] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-recession-will-hurt-women-more-it-might-nudge-them-toward
[20] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/coronavirus-disaster-feminism