One step forward, two steps back: pandemic policy responses and the gendered implications for women and LGBTQI+ migrants

Jenna Hennebry and Hari Kc

Chapter 21 in Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19, 2024, pp 309-324 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the capacity of states and stakeholders to respond to the realities of gender inequality that have been heightened during the pandemic. Given the pandemic’s uneven impacts and implications for women and LGBTQI+ migrants, I argue that these are more than merely negative outcomes for migrants, but that they indicate significant steps back in women’s rights and gender equality that will take targeted and purposeful action for recovery in a post-pandemic world. There have been some egregious steps back on gender equality during the pandemic. In this chapter, I outline these steps back and make the case that so as not to lose ground on SDG 5 of the 2030 Agenda and to ensure the protection of human rights of women, girls and LGBTQI+ migrants, post-pandemic recovery efforts must target the structural causes of gender inequality and their intersections with other inequities.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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