Women are most affected by pandemics — lessons from past outbreaks

Clare Wenham (), Julia Smith, Sara E. Davies, Huiyun Feng, Karen A. Grépin, Sophie Harman, Asha Herten-Crabb and Rosemary Morgan

Nature, 2020, vol. 583, issue 7815, 194-198

Abstract: The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure.

Keywords: Society; Policy; Diseases; SARS-CoV-2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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