Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Women’s Rights and Wellbeing

Analysis of the Ugandan Response to the Global Virus

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7315577
AutoresHadijah Mwenyango (0000-0001-7352-8832, Edinburgh Napier University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas105-113
Fecha de publicación2022-10-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Human Rights and Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2365-1792 • E-ISSN: 2365-1792
EditorialSpringer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1007/s41134-022-00229-w
PMID36313624
OpenAlexW4307573012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas9

The COVID-19 pandemic caused dilemmas for the most vulnerable populations around the world. This article describes the gendered effects of the pandemic on Ugandan women’s rights and wellbeing and provides suggestions for local and international practice. Mandatory lockdowns and movement restrictions created negative implications for women’s attainment of economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights and intensified pre-existing gender inequalities between women and men. The findings of intensified gender inequities, gender-based violence, sexual abuse, scanty access to reproductive health services and social justice, and barriers to participation in education, employment and politics indicate that response measures were not aligned with the government’s legal and policy framework for addressing gender inequities. This research indicates that governments, civil society organisations and the international community must undertake proper gender analysis in designing response measures and guidelines not only for COVID-19 but also in other emergencies. All response measures during emergencies must be coordinated, monitored and evaluated to ensure efficient and effective protection of the vulnerable and conformity to human rights standards

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Gender analysis · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma