Gender Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea: A Common Challenge and Call for Action

Kim, Saerom; Kim, Jin Hwan; Park, Yukyung; Kim, Sun; Kim, Chang-Yup

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“…However, minor differences were observed. For example, females showed higher means and variability than males for the three factors (Kim et al, 2020). The variability of the three factors showed a mixed pattern.…”

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Social Avoidance and Stigma Among Healthcare Workers Serving COVID-19 Patients in Saudi Arabia

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This study investigated the social impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and their relationships with their families and relatives. Data were collected from a sample of 226 healthcare workers (HCWs) using an analytical cross-sectional design. The data extracted three factors: communication impairment, social avoidance, stigma, and personal deprivation and distress, rated as severe, moderate, and moderate, respectively. The results showed that HCWs’ social and personal lives were significantly affected, ranging from predominantly moderate to highly severe. The variability of the three factors coordinated with marital status and working hours showed a mixed pattern. Discontinued workgroups are more affected by communication impairments, social avoidance, and stigma, less emotional and personal deprivation. HCWs with lower levels of education suffer more severe impacts of working with COVID-19 patients than those with higher educational levels. The study highlights the social impact of working with the COVID-19 patients on healthcare workers and the need for more social support and institutional support.

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Social Avoidance and Stigma Among Healthcare Workers Serving COVID-19 Patients in Saudi Arabia

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“…There has been a substantial call for attention to gender during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting a concern that responses to the pandemic that fail to consider gender differences and norms will be ineffective and uphold current gender and health inequalities (Wenham et al 2020). Researchers attending to gender have so far established that men are more likely to have severe outcomes from COVID-19 than women (Rabin 2020;Purdie et al 2020), women often occupy positions of high risk due to their overrepresentation in the healthcare sector, and there is an inadequate representation of women in health leadership and decision-making roles across the globe (Kim et al 2020;EIGE 2020). Being female and a nurse have both emerged as associated with a higher prevalence of depression and anxiety compared to other healthcare workers (Pappa et al 2020).…”

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Gender Matters: A Gender Analysis of Healthcare Workers’ Experiences during the First COVID-19 Pandemic Peak in England

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Vindrola‐Padros

2021

Social Sciences

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) arrived in the United Kingdom (UK) in February 2020, placing an unprecedented burden on the National Health Service (NHS). Literature from past epidemics and the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of using a gender lens when considering policy, experiences, and impacts of the disease. Researchers are increasingly examining the experiences of healthcare workers (HCWs), yet there is a dearth of research considering how gender shapes HCWs’ personal experiences. As the majority of HCWs in the UK and worldwide are women, research that investigates gender and focuses on women’s experiences is urgently needed. We conducted an analysis of 41 qualitative interviews with HCWs in the British NHS during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020. Our findings demonstrate that gender is significant when understanding the experiences of HCWs during COVID-19 as it illuminates ingrained inequalities and asymmetrical power relations, gendered organizational structures and norms, and individual gendered bodies that interact to shape experiences of healthcare workers. These findings point to important steps to improve gender equality, the wellbeing of healthcare workers, and the overall strength of the NHS.

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“…Another study reported that depression and anxiety had increased in female nurses compared with other health workers 27 . According to studies focused on gender differences, it has been found that women usually work in high‐risk positions because of the high number of women in health‐related professions and women were insufficiently represented in the health sector in terms of roles of leadership and decision‐making worldwide 23,28–30 . Moreover, in certain gender studies conducted with nursing students before the Covid‐19 outbreak, it was reported that the attitudes of female students were more egalitarian when compared with male students and that nursing education had a positive effect on the “egalitarian attitude.” 31–33 In our study, it was found that the majority of the nursing students ( f = 11) had a nonegalitarian approach concerning gender roles (Figure 7).…”

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The perceptions of nursing students regarding coronavirus and occupation according to gender: A qualitative study

Yılmaz

Ordu

2022

Nursing Forum

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Outbreaks are experienced differently based on gender. In the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, students' perceptions of the nursing profession, their feelings related to themselves, their social circle, nursing, and the appropriateness of nursing practices are important. This study aimed to determine the perceptions of nursing students of the Coronavirus and their occupation according to gender. Twenty nursing students were interviewed using the semi-structured interview method.Content analysis and MAXQDA were performed. Five categories were identified:Visual perceptions regarding the nursing occupation and Covid-19, future nurses' occupational perceptions according to gender of pandemics such as the Coronavirus, the effect of the pandemic on occupational perception, perceptions of the people around them of their profession in relation to the pandemic, and the approach toward any pandemic in the future in terms of their profession as a nurse. Pandemics such as Covid-19 can affect the occupational perceptions of nursing students.

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Gender Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea: A Common Challenge and Call for Action

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

Social Avoidance and Stigma Among Healthcare Workers Serving COVID-19 Patients in Saudi Arabia

Social Avoidance and Stigma Among Healthcare Workers Serving COVID-19 Patients in Saudi Arabia

Gender Matters: A Gender Analysis of Healthcare Workers’ Experiences during the First COVID-19 Pandemic Peak in England

The perceptions of nursing students regarding coronavirus and occupation according to gender: A qualitative study

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