Why Corona is a feminist issue

The Bunker

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🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Coronavirus has put women out of work more frequently than men, led to a spike in domestic violence, pushed women’s healthcare down the list of priorities, and set the scene for a mental health crisis for women. Yet politicians appear blind to the pandemic’s gendered consequences. Dr Clare Wenham, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at the LSE, talks to Helen Lewis about how the pandemic has hit women hardest, and what we will need to learn from it. “We’re seeing exactly what happened with Zika and Ebola – but on a global scale.” “Female-dominated industries are the ones hardest hit by pandemics. What it means is, women lose their jobs.” “British exceptionalism means we haven’t learned from what happened during pandemics in the rest of the world.” Presented by Helen Lewis. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
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1:12.1	difficult women, a history of feminism in 11 fights. My guest today is
1:15.8	Dr. Claire Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the
1:18.6	London School of Economics. I first spoke to Claire in March from an Atlantic
1:22.4	piece which ran under the headline,
1:24.0	The Coronovirus is a disaster for feminism.
1:27.1	Drawing on her research into previous epidemics of Zika and Ebola, I was pretty downbeat about the effect of
1:32.3	COVID-19 and the lockdowns required to
1:34.6	contain it on women's working lives. Since then Clara has received funding to study
1:39.4	the gender impact of this particular disease and at the start of the month she became a viral
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