Gender, Diversity and COVID-19
This Gender, Diversity and COVID-19 platform offers a series of short blogposts in which we invite different platform members and researchers to share their findings, insights and reading tips on issues of inclusion and exclusion related to the Corona crisis. Together, the blogs will form a much-needed interdisciplinary and intersectional insight to the issues that are at stake and the solutions to be developed. Are you interested in contributing? Let us know by sending an email to IOSgenderanddiversity@uu.nl.
Hidden Costs of the Pandemic on Gender Equality: Has COVID-19 Taught Working Mothers to Prioritize Their Family (Again)?
Belle Derks, Johanna Kruger, Ruth van Veelen and Mara Yerkes on the invisible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Domestic Violence and COVID-19 in The Netherlands: A Case of (Im)Possible Framing?
Diana Willemijn Helmich examines (the increase of) domestic violence in the Netherlands during COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic: A global health crisis or the care economy in crisis?
The crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a magnifying glass for the pre-existing discriminations across gender, race and class whilst it increased the social and economic inequalities.
Success of Women Leadership during COVID-19: At Risk of Essentialising “The Feminine”?
The media headlines lauding the success of “female-led” countries over their male counterparts during the COVID19-crisis do more harm than good.
Are you there? Can you hear me? The impact of COVID-19 on higher education
How can we create a safe environment online where everyone feels welcome, a space to be present in their own way in 100% online classes?
Designated Caregivers: Migrant Mothers During a Global Pandemic
Migrant mothers have bore the largest responsibility of childcare and housekeeping tasks within their families since the start of the lockdown in mid-March.
Nereida OrdovasHispaterapia
Are vulnerable groups even more vulnerable in times of COVID-19 pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic has demasked some social inequities that are often neglected in developed countries. This requires governments to re-think their social protection policies.
Healthy Working Lives: Exclusion in Disguise?
How are lines between workers redrawn or reinforced through changing ideas and practices related to health in pandemic times?
Dr Noortje van AmsterdamLaw, Economics and Governance
A multi-university course on COVID-19 and global inequalities
The Gender and Diversity Hub at Utrecht University has collaborated with the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law to provide a course which looks into these effect of the global crisis on specific groups of society.
Dr Birte BöökUtrecht School of Law
The forest or the trees
The profound implications of COVID-19 measures for everybody’s fundamental rights are still being determined.
Dr Lorena SosaNetherlands Institute of Human Rights
Unintended consequences and troubles: what do we fear about COVID-19?
As a PhD student who is majoring in health and illness sociology and a Chinese citizen who is entitled to “go home,” the COVID-19 pandemic and the way China responds to it provided me an opportunity to experience a two-week quarantine thus further reflected on what exactly makes us feel fearful when facing this unexpected concern.
Zhipeng SunInterdisciplinary Social Science
The Need for an Intersectional Intervention in the COVID-19 Crisis
We invite members and affiliated researchers to share their findings, their insights and their reading tips in order to develop a well-researched position paper which will contribute to an intersectional analysis of the issues at stake and the solutions to be developed.
Prof. Rosemarie BuikemaGender and Diversity Hub
Thinking with the virus
Corona is not merely a medical issue, but also a social-political one that calls for a thorough, critical diagnostics.
Prof. Birgit MeyerReligious Studies
Race, Class, Health: Coronavirus Shines a Light on Preexisting Health Disparities
By targeting those with preexisting conditions, the coronavirus reminds us which groups have had their health systematically devalued.
Dr Anne KustritzMedia and Performance Studies
On the Capitalist (Re)Production of our Bodies in Times of Corona
From my situated perspective as an activist-researcher working on social movements and the embodiment of activist work practices, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought striking light to the question of inequalities
Dr Yousra Rahmouni ElidrissiOrganisation Science
The Gendered Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Divisions of Work, Care, and Wellbeing
As lockdown measures have an unprecedented and complex effect on the lives of men and women, understanding the impact of the pandemic on gender inequalities in work and care is crucial.