The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; Tertilt, Michèle

doi:10.3386/w26947

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“…Similar trends holds for other individual and household characteristics. This nding supports the ndings of Wenham, et al (2020) and Alon, et al (2020) who observed that COVID-19 pandemic is widening the gender inequality gap with females continuously disfavoured.…”

Section: Econometric Estimation Of Effect Of Covid-19 On Poverty Andsupporting

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“…These are statistically signi cant, indicating the relevance of such variations. This nding supports the ndings of Alon, et al (2020) who found that COVID-19 had exacerbated the gender equality gap. The authors found that closure of schools, and daycare centers have massively increased the poverty levels of females and the effect is likely to persist for a long while owing to high return to experience in the labor market.…”

Section: Econometric Estimation Of Effect Of Covid-19 On Poverty Andsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…1998Grossbard, 2014;Depew, & Price, 2018;Betti, Mangiavacchi, & Piccoli, 2020). Thus, the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has received growing concerns (Alon, Doepke, Olmstead-Rumsey & Tertilt, 2020;Wenham, Smith & Morgan, 2020) that the existing gender inequalities is likely to exacerbate given that labor markets and family obligations often constrain females in competition against men on the economic front. Others (Wenham, et al, 2020) underscored that the differential effect of COVID-19 on women results from differences in employment status where most women are engaged in informal care within the household with the consequences of limiting their work and economic opportunities.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro perspective

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Abstract The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12th March 2020 and, in less than a week, increased by over 300 percent with two deaths. As of 11th June 2020, Ghana had recorded over 11,000 cases with 48 deaths. This study seeks to provide a micro-level evidence on how COVID-19 is posing a threat to some of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty and hunger in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards of Ghanaian households. It also analyzed which class of persons within the income distributions is mostly hit by the pandemic. Data on 3,905 households were obtained via concurrent online survey and telephone interviews. Multiple analytical approaches were employed: Ordinary least squares, probit model and simultaneous quantile regressions. The results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households, while deteriorating living standards. The study also showed that gender and locational heterogeneities exist regarding the impact of COVID-19 with females and rural dwellers mostly disadvantaged. However, the simultaneous quantile regression showed that in terms of overall household consumption, those in the middle and upper classes were heavily affected compared to those in the lowest class. A key policy implication from this study is that Ghana needs to broaden its social protection programmes to assist both the new poor and existing poor.

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Section: Econometric Estimation Of Effect Of Covid-19 On Poverty Andsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Econometric Estimation Of Effect Of Covid-19 On Poverty Andsupporting

confidence: 87%

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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro perspective

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“…This is largely because COVID-19 possesses the same if not more of the disruptive effect of HIV-AIDS and environmental health. The epidemic broke out in December 2019, as a novel coronavirus in Wuhan in the Hubei province in central China [63]. At the onset, it was thought to be a domestic problem in China and its pathogenic and contagious character was not very clear even to the World Health Organisations [64].…”

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Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of the Role of Global Health in the Evolution and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility

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2020

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Abstract BackgroundGlobal health crisis continues to drive the dynamics of corporate social responsibility across industries with self-perpetuating momentum. From a historical point of view, more than a century of immense corporate fecundity has formed the ecological conditions and shaped current understanding of the effect of global health on CSR. The HIV-AIDS, the Opiod, the environmental health, obesity and many other health crises have become a synergistic platform to enhance corporate offer and competitiveness through voluntary support and care for victims. This review therefore revisits the core issues in global health that continues to drive CSR across industries. It seek to establish the driving dynamics of healthcare in CSR engagement, identify its contribution to theory and practice and predict the future pattern as corporate enterprises navigate new CSR strategies through the epochal challenges presented by COVID-19MethodThe procedures and set of activities outlined in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flow chart was used to carry out the systematic review.ResultsThe analysis has shown that from time immemorial, global health has played a major role in the development and implementation of CSR among enterprises. The HIV-AIDS pandemic, the environmental health crises are two dominant global health crisis that have shaped and continue to drive CSR activities in numerous work places but COVID-19 presents a deeper challenge for enterprise. These diseases are capable of self-mobilising advocates at the international level, have a grabbing value that reaches the corridors of power in international humanitarian organisations and multinational enterprises.ConclusionsThe impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on CSR is predicted to be monumental and uncommon. The call for a radical overhaul of health and safety measures in enterprises is now urgent than ever before. There is a moral obligation for enterprises to reform current risk assessments and collaborate more deeply with state agencies to invest in the health and safety inspections at the world place.

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“…Given the demonstrated disparities between men and women in their contributions to child care, it's a sensible prediction that women will be more substantially affected by these disruptions caused by COVID-19 (Alon et al 2020) and, in particular, that women will suffer more substantial drops in their scholarly productivity than will men during the pandemic.…”

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The representation of women as authors of submissions to ecology journals during the COVID-19 pandemic

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2020

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality

Cited by 1,402 publications

References 21 publications

Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro perspective

Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana: A micro perspective

Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of the Role of Global Health in the Evolution and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility

The representation of women as authors of submissions to ecology journals during the COVID-19 pandemic

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