Beyond a Zero-Sum Game

How Does the Impact of Covid-19 Vary by Gender

Bibliographic Data

ID16948263
AuthorsRosemary Morgan (0000-0001-5009-8470, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Peter Baker (0000-0001-5374-9726, Men's Health Forum), Derek M Griffith (0000-0003-0018-9176, Vanderbilt University), Sabra L Klein (0000-0002-0730-5224, Johns Hopkins University), Carmen H Logie (0000-0002-8035-433X, University of Toronto), Amon Ashaba Mwiine (0000-0002-7071-1495, Makerere University), Ayden I Scheim (0000-0001-8498-9829, Drexel University, corresponding author), Janna R Shapiro (0000-0001-8088-2506, Johns Hopkins University), Julia Smith (0000-0002-5175-1109, Simon Fraser University), Clare Wenham (0000-0001-5378-3203, London School of Economics and Political Science), Alan White (0000-0001-8054-7783, Leeds Beckett University)
Year2021
Volume6
Pages650729-650729
Publication date2021-06-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2297-7775 • E-ISSN: 2297-7775
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fsoc.2021.650729
PMID34212026
OpenAlexW3168787008
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited59

Epidemics and pandemics, like COVID-19, are not gender neutral. Much of the current work on gender, sex, and COVID-19, however, has seemed implicitly or explicitly to be attempting to demonstrate that either men or women have been hardest hit, treating differences between women and men as though it is not important to understand how each group is affected by the virus. This approach often leaves out the effect on gender and sexual minorities entirely. Believing that a more nuanced approach is needed now and for the future, we brought together a group of gender experts to answer the question: how are people of different genders impacted by COVID-19 and why? Individuals working in women’s, men’s, and LGBTQ health and wellbeing wrote sections to lay out the different ways that women, men, and gender and sexual minorities are affected by COVID-19. We demonstrate that there is not one group “most affected,” but that many groups are affected, and we need to move beyond a zero-sum game and engage in ways to mutually identify and support marginalized groups

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Gender equality · Pandemic · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Sex and Gender in Healthcare · Social Psychology