About this video
Prof Morgan stresses the need for gender responsive emergency preparedness and response mechanisms. COVID-19 is not gender neutral but the global policy created to respond to pandemics is gender neutral by not recognising differential effects downstream of primary effects, on the long term effects, which are overwhelmingly worse for women, as well as intersecting gender characteristics and in particular race. COVID-19 has given rise to many important projects to enable real time, multi-faceted gender analysis of preparedness and response mechanisms. A Gender and COVID-19 Working Group was created to connect researchers in ways not done before.