From April but remains relevant:
“The coronavirus has dealt a body blow to U.S. workers. So far, it's women who are paying much of the price.”
Of +700k jobs eliminated in 1st wave of pandemic layoffs in March: nearly 60% of those jobs were held by women.
npr.org/2020/04/08/829…
“The coronavirus has dealt a body blow to U.S. workers. So far, it's women who are paying much of the price.”
Of +700k jobs eliminated in 1st wave of pandemic layoffs in March: nearly 60% of those jobs were held by women.
npr.org/2020/04/08/829…
And women in science, too.
“Women in science are battling both #Covid19 and the patriarchy.”
The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say ‘I’m done’, write 35 female scientists timeshighereducation.com/blog/women-sci…
“Women in science are battling both #Covid19 and the patriarchy.”
The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say ‘I’m done’, write 35 female scientists timeshighereducation.com/blog/women-sci…
“In some ways,the issues we face represent an exacerbation of the inequalities we’ve always had to manage.But what’s surprising & demoralising is seeing the fault lines of sexism that define our unequal footing with men crack into gaping chasms under the pressure of the pandemic”
“Women are advising policymakers, designing clinical trials, coordinating field studies and leading data collection and analysis, but you would never know it from the media coverage of the pandemic.” #COVID 
“...the lack of inclusion of leaders of colour is striking and disenfranchising for minority women scientists of colour, particularly as communities of colour are being hit hardest by this epidemic.” #COVID
“Even within our own institutions, unqualified men’s voices are being amplified over expert women because they have been identified through informal male networks, or have blustered their way in to social media and TV interviews and are therefore perceived as “high profile”.”
