Gender impacts of COVID-19

Gender impacts of COVID-19

ByGrania Mackie

Decision making and gendered roles: Women have proved to be less visible in COVID-19 crisis decision-making, yet within health emergencies they are prominent as frontline workers (nurses, nurse aides, teachers, child care workers, aged-care workers, and cleaners, retail staff) are mostly women (Lowe Institute, 2020).  Falling back on traditional ‘quick’ methods of decision that are…

Gender and evaluation

ByGrania Mackie

The Institute of Social Studies Trust (New Delhi)  launched Gender & Evaluation community on 16th Feb 2013 under ‘Engendering Policy through Evaluation’ project which was funded by IDRC and the Ford Foundation. The Community is an very active and useful resource for those involved in, or wanting to learn about gender specific evaluations or better inclusion of…