Perspective on Gender Disparities during Pandemics: Past to Present

Author(s): M Jeevanthi and Dr. S Sangeeta

Abstract:

Numerous instances of gender-based discrimination exist worldwide and have persisted throughout history. When it comes to the majority of the field, there is a significant gender disparity and huge gender gap. Gender equality affects everyone. During pandemics or outbreaks, women are more vulnerable to gender differences in health-related elements. Women have experienced several push and pull elements from ancient times as a result of gender discrimination. The primary goal of this article is to highlight the different struggles and hardships caused by gender discrimination during emergencies such as pandemics, endemics, epidemics, and outbreaks from the ancient era to the present. In this article, the main pandemic scenarios covered are COVID-19, Zika virus, Ebola Virus disease, and influenza in 1918 and 1919. As a result, pandemics do not respect gender, women were unable to immediately obtain healthcare services because of the health systems' lack of resilience, filling labor gaps to curb the pandemic and Women's absence from decision-making encouraged power relations, which violated their autonomy and threatened their rights to sexual and reproductive health. The COVID-19 virus poses a complex and varied threat to women.Since women are frequently essential to the health and well-being of homes and entire nations, protecting their health and wellbeing should be a top concern, according to study. Society requires prompt and workable solutions. In order to safeguard the vulnerable from gender inequality, a few strategies, policies, and implementations already in place might be reframed in order to overcome such discrepancies.

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