Effects of corona virus on women

One of the consequences of health care givers being mostly women is that while men are said to be more susceptible to the coronavirus more women have died of it here in Washington State than men.
It is my suspicion that susceptibility is overdetermined.

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

He named three wacky pointless items that he would pile his trolley high with - plug adapters, lemongrass stalks and, you guessed it, tampons

What a prize dipshit

Ive been building an essentials stash in the garage since brexit and only realised yesterday that I'd totally forgotten to buy any sanpro!

This is a slightly old rant but I guess the rage isn't out of my system. A few weeks ago at the start of the hoarding/stockpiling madness I saw a thread on Reddit where some dude was joking that he'd like to go in and start stockpiling random/non-essential items just to freak out the other customers in the shop.

He named three wacky pointless items that he would pile his trolley high with - plug adapters, lemongrass stalks and, you guessed it, tampons.

I didn't know how to respond to that so I didn't, though someone did at least point out to him that some people were stockpiling tampons.

Still cannot form a coherent comment on it so I'm just sharing it with you all.

Bloody hell, are you lot still feminists? In a crisis situation like this?

There are posts on here which come across as little more than point scoring.

Oh absolutely

But I don’t think we are thinking of the same posts

This is a unique situation. There are posts on here which come across as little more than point scoring.

Feminism focuses on women dido. Not men

Its weird that people don’t grasp this

Its like going on the doghouse board and going...

‘Cats...fab aren’t they’

he is trying to homeschool / look after children at the same time as 'working' then he'd lose his job and get fired (he's in a competitive industry)

It's pretty outrageous that although people are at risk of dying some of these companies still wont make any form of concession to allow people to work and meet their childcare responsibilities.

Bigging up one role utterly seems pointless.

Feminism focuses on women dido. Not men.

Surely you mean one up womanship,dido?

Whatever Datun- it's still tedious. We are all stuck with this. Bigging up one role utterly seems pointless.

It’s funny though- everyone i know taking advantage of keyworker places are doing so because their husbands or male partners are working from home and can’t look after the children at the same time. All the women i know wfh are having the children instead.

Yes I know a fair few in this situation too. Although it's not always the fact that the man 'won't' do it that is the issue - In one case it's that he has a job paying approx 5x that of his wife (a nurse) and so their mortgage and most of their bills are paid by his job and they're naturally very concerned that there is a risk if he is trying to homeschool / look after children at the same time as 'working' then he'd lose his job and get fired (he's in a competitive industry).

My school sent a letter around saying that if you were a keyworker you were eligible for a place but if there was another adult who could WFH to consider keeping children at home for everyone's safety (social distancing) which seemed a good way to put it.

But it not only depends on who's staying home but relative incomes as well.

It's always been my opinion that nurses are paid very shoddily and I really think they should be getting a pay rise in this situation. All fof the nurses I know are very much the second earner in their relationships - so if anyone was going to give up work to take care of kids (for whatever reason) it would be them because they couldn't afford the financial hit of losing the higher salary.

b) those children who are going to school are going to find themselves significantly academically ahead

It’s been made quite clear that no teaching will be happening in schools, it is childcare only, and staffing will be minimum to provide safety.

There will be no teaching.

In fact i’d suggest the reverse- those kids at home will be able to crack on with google classroom- work will be set by those teachers working from home, not in school childminding.

It’s funny though- everyone i know taking advantage of keyworker places are doing so because their husbands or male partners are working from home and can’t look after the children at the same time. All the women i know wfh are having the children instead.

I have told mine i am not doing housework while they are at home all day and i am at work. To the point i will move into staff accommodation and leave them to it.

@definitelygc I agree but I even think it's a case not only of "couldn't" I think they out and out won't look after them. Leaving the key worker in question in an impossible position.

I'm really getting rather annoyed by the frankly silly competitiveness and "women up-manship" going on here.

Surely you mean one up womanship, dido?

I would try not to get annoyed. Otherwise you might be getting annoyed a lot.

We would like to hear from both women and non-binary people.

It's looking more and more risible.

How are you going to collate the answers to a survey asking all about women's responsibilities if it can include men under 'non-binary people'?

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

I haven't heard one peep of complaint from the single men at work while they expand their workloads to allow women (and men) with families to work from home. Usually, they grumble about everything.

I definitely feel I’m doing all the worrying and DH is carrying on as normal. He doesn’t “plan” the way I do eg I’m always thinking Eg “right this food is going out of date make sure DD eats it” or “how to occupy DD as no school”.
We are both emergency workers but if I’m off I’ll keep her at home.

We would like to hear from both women and non-binary people

Oh I didn't see that. Yawn.

The Fawcett Society arent setting themselves up well for useable data
We would like to hear from both women and non-binary people. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Nurses, carers, cleaners, sahp are mostly women

At the levels above junior doctors the staff will be men. Famers, food producers, delivery drivers, engineers, are overwhelmingly male.

The people who are being expected to unblock the sewage system because it has been blocked up by fuckwits putting non-flushable paper down will be men.

I'm really getting rather annoyed by the frankly silly competitiveness and "women up-manship" going on here.

Nurses, carers, cleaners, sahp are mostly women.