Gender inequalities in times of COVID-19: a crisis of governance

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Published: 05/13/2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/eo.v6i0.1965
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Gender, development, pandemic, inequality, health crisis, care crisis, gender-based violence crisis, governance, COVID-19

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Esthefanía Cárdenas
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

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The impact of COVID-19 brought into question the efficiency of the cur-rent system of response to the pandemic in the face of gender inequal-ity. The lack of a human rights-based approach to respond to the needs of feminized, non-heteronormative and impoverished bodies meant the death of thousands of people around the world, not only because of the virus, but because of a crisis of governance that was based on a pa-triarchal regime. The pandemic intensified important issues that were also ignored before the outbreak, among them the impact of the crises: economic, care and gender-based violence. For these reasons, this arti-cle seeks to make visible, from a gender and development perspective, how the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s social, economic, and political responses to it increased inequality.

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Vol. 6 (2021)

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Cárdenas, E. (2021). Gender inequalities in times of COVID-19: a crisis of governance. El Outsider: Journal of International Relations and Political Science, 6, 113-127. https://doi.org/10.18272/eo.v6i0.1965

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