Effects of corona virus on women

[ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings]

Just thinking about the ways the virus and measures taken to combat it will effect women. The first thing that come to mind is that if children need time off school/ elderly people need caring for, it'll disproportionatly be women providing that care and probably taking time off work to do it. The second things is the way isolation and domestic abuse will correlate. Women in violent and abusive relationships will be trapped at home with their abuser in an increasingly tense claustrophobic environment. No chance of even escaping to a friends or him going for a walk to calm down. I can imagine that a lot of women will experience their first episode of violence if a long lockdown is initiated. It's also a controlling abusers dream situation. I have a friend whose husband is extremely controlling and does anything he can to limit and control her movements. He's basically got her imprisoned inside atm and won't let her go out til CV is over - for her own safety, of course . Shockingly there's no need for him to self isolate yet, but her and their kid absolutely must be in the house 24/7. It's like all his Christmases have come at once. It's the perfect excuse for abusers to isolate their partners from friends, family, maybe even a way to force them to give up work. And worst of all I don't even know if these effects can be mitigated.

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.

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"

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

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

🤐💄👠👙 🙈🙉 🙊 and in conclusion

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

Oh, are you still here missing every single point by a country mile Dido? Dont you have anything better to do? It was perfectly obvious to everyone else that Tinsel was talking about impractical clothing worn by women for the sole purpose of meeting beauty expectations. For lots of women that means skirts, high heels, tight clothing etc. Things lots of women would rather not wear but for one reason or another feel they have to. Things most women don't bother wearing if they're just relaxing at home. It obviously didnt mean that all women hate wearing skirts or that all skirts are impractical. Do you wear skirts because you find them more comfortable than trousers? Great, your choices obviously weren't the ones being referenced then.

Jesus wept!

Also yes to Floisme, not all women have an extensive beauty regime because they feel they need to maintain a certain appearance, many do it as a pleasurable form of self care. Those women will also be impacted. Some will maybe feel relieved they don't have to participate in expensive time consuming beauty rituals for a while, some may realise they were doing it for others all along and make lasting changes, others may just feel increasingly sad and self conscious without those options, and some will have lost an important way of relaxing and practising self care. My point was not that all women think the same on this issue, it was simply that its an issue that will affect women in different ways, which is less likely to affect men.

That escalated quickly.

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

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.

The situation will be extra shit for women in prostitution as well. Either they get no "clients", in which case they get no money - pretty sure the gov won't be giarenteeing their wages! - or they keep on getting clients (and judging by the fact that pornhub have introduced a CV topic, that seems most likely) and then they have an additional level of danger in an already extremely dangerous job.

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

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

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