Thread by @clarewenham

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 🧵

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)
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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

wbg.org.uk/analysis/uk-po…

For those ineligible for furlough, we saw increased unemployment for women compared to men during 2020. (a trend replicated across Europe and N. America)

ifs.org.uk/publications/1…

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)

tuc.org.uk/research-analy…

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

icaew.com/insights/viewp…

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

gingerbread.org.uk/policy-campaig…

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

theigc.org/wp-content/upl…

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

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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

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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

guttmacher.org/report/early-i…

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?

kcl.ac.uk/news/why-has-c…

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

nhsemployers.org/engagement-and…

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