Effects of corona virus on women

Article about unequal response by workplaces:

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/mothers-say-they-being-kept-at-work-uk-as-fathers-stay-home

This may already have been posted but a petition here by Pregnant Then Screwed re caregivers' income: pregnantthenscrewed.com/covid-19/sign-the-petition/

Excellent blog here by an academic recovering from Coronavirus who works on low paid work (disproportionately who will be women and carers for others)
www.versobooks.com/blogs/4616-our-low-paid-workers-are-our-lifeline

I see your point about it affecting women in different ways ByGrab and I think it'll be an interesting way of finding out what we do for enjoyment / self care and what we do because it feels expected of us. Assuming the human race survives, I am sceptical about it leading to widespread lasting change but we'll see.

Apparently it impacts sperm quality and many sperm banks and fertility clinics are temporarily pausing new donations

That escalated quickly.

I love this response on Maugham's thread.

Men already have it particularly hard during this pandemic. We're losing $1.00 to every 79¢ a woman loses

They are extremely uncomfortable and give me thrush. Would she prefer I go naked from the waist down?

🤐💄👠👙 🙈🙉 🙊 and in conclusion

It finally dawns on a fox battering kimono wearing QC that the children need entertaining while he works from home.

twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1241823864113463296?s=21

Who on Earth gets this belligerent and aggressive when someone suggests not all women love wearing skirts..

Nice spin on her comment but that wasn't what she was suggesting. It was the usual supercilious sneering and remains the most stupid and irrelevant comment I've seen on the topic of coronovirus.

It's clearly beyond the wit of that poster to understand some women hate wearing trousers. I hate them. They are extremely uncomfortable and give me thrush. Would she prefer I go naked from the waist down?

And that's aside from the sheer stupiditty and crassness of seeing a ray of light in the coronovirus situation "ooh at least women won't have to wear skirts"

Ok, perhaps a more accurate line would be, "most medical research wither excludes women or focuses more on men". The point is that medical research does not give women a fair shake, meaning that either the findings are skewed towards men or that women's specific issues are not taken into account.

Oh bore off. That has to be the stupidest comment I've seen so far on the topic.

Wow, what an incredibly rude overreaction. Who on Earth gets this belligerent and aggressive when someone suggests not all women love wearing skirts... oh. I will try to forget i thought that question. And since then there has been some Well Actually-ing, a WATM, and even an attempt at "any criticism of the beauty industry is antifeminist" with a massively hamfisted accompanying attempt at a guilt trip. I guess this thread is rustling some jimmies.

It is lowkey infuriating that it took a health crisis that primarily affects men to force public health agencies to start collecting sex-disaggregated data without "gender" fogging up the stats. But hopefully now they've started doing it, it will be easier to hold their feet to the fire to make them continue doing it in future.

I wonder if it will change some people's perceptions of the amount of "maintenence" they think they need
If you listen to women who are into skin care or make up or fashion, many of them lead very challenging lives and treasure this small amount of time that they spend purely on themselves. Of course it's unnecessary and arguably pointless, as is icing cakes or growing cacti or listening to The Archers. But self care is important at a time like this, particularly if you spend much of your life looking after other people, and hierarchies of worthiness are not helpful.

I’ve just had the results of my smear test back and I’ve been called into hospital later this week for a colposcopy. I’m nervous about going into a hospital at this time and I’m even more nervous that procedures like these could be cancelled at any time. On top of being nervous about the procedure and the results from it too.

haha

I knew you'd post those links, and they are totally true.
But you said "most medical research excludes women".
Not true.

Talking about unisex NHS equipment.
I have a box of masks here and they are one size only.
Faceache tiny - I have a large head for a woman and wear men's size hats as I can never get womens hats to fit
The mask I've been wearing all morning has left welts all over my face and is so painful I don't think I can stand a whole afternoon of it.
God knows how the male staff can stand it because I can't.

No it doesn't.

haha. Attached a few clips from just the first few pages of the chapter on medical issues for women in the book, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez. For more detail, feel free to go and buy the book.

I know NAMALT etc. but I really need to hear some stories of men stepping up because I personally don't know any.

Dp is at home with dd most days as I need to be in school and he can WFH. He is doing all the cooking and cleaning and doing his best to teach her while also keeping his business going. She is loving it so far (only day 3 to be fair). I am loving coming home to a cooked meal every night!

most medical research excludes women

No it doesn't.

TinselAngel

It might also cause a reduction in the sale of impractical female clothingGrabthar, who wants to wear a skirt, in the midst of a pandemic?

Oh bore off. That has to be the stupidest comment I've seen so far on the topic.

Men are more likely to smoke than women, especially older men and especially in China and Italy (where much of the data is coming from).

The thing is that most medical research excludes women because they are too "difficult" to study. Suddenly, lower death rate and medical science is all over studying women. Saw a comment on Twitter that isn't it interesting how suddenly data broken down by sex is seen as valuable ... as a way to cure / help men?!

The lower death rate could be anything but will need studying.

I don't think women are less likely to catch it for any medical reasons, only because in some societies they are less exposed to it.

In relation to health outcomes it is not clear if there is any underlying medical reason why outcomes for women are better or whether it is because they are less likely to have other factors that pre dispose them e.g smoking.