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Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic masculinity, is another pandemic that exists...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7723732/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920520975465 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic masculinity, is another pandemic that exists in all societies at varying degrees of prevalence and severity.(1) It requires the same effort and attention that governments globally have given to COVID-19. With half the world under lockdown as governments’ response to COVID-19, GBV increased significantly (UN Women, 2020a). The increase was a reminder of the need to have contingent mitigating mechanism to protect the marginalized, women and girls, against a co-existing pandemic, GBV. The intersection of marginalization and discrimination made certain groups of women more susceptible to GBV and COVID-19 pandemics. These intersecting social identities of vulnerability need equal attention in order to eradicate inequality (Simonovic, 2020). |
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spelling | pubmed-77237322020-12-09 Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 Dlamini, Nobuhle Judy Crit Sociol (Eugene) Symposium: COVID-19, Globalization, Health Disparities and Social Policy The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing inequalities within countries and across geographies. It reminded us how the world and its people are interconnected. Gender-based violence (GBV), which is an expression of gender inequality and toxic masculinity, is another pandemic that exists in all societies at varying degrees of prevalence and severity.(1) It requires the same effort and attention that governments globally have given to COVID-19. With half the world under lockdown as governments’ response to COVID-19, GBV increased significantly (UN Women, 2020a). The increase was a reminder of the need to have contingent mitigating mechanism to protect the marginalized, women and girls, against a co-existing pandemic, GBV. The intersection of marginalization and discrimination made certain groups of women more susceptible to GBV and COVID-19 pandemics. These intersecting social identities of vulnerability need equal attention in order to eradicate inequality (Simonovic, 2020). SAGE Publications 2021-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7723732/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920520975465 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Symposium: COVID-19, Globalization, Health Disparities and Social Policy Dlamini, Nobuhle Judy Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 |
title | Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 |
title_full | Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 |
title_short | Gender-Based Violence, Twin Pandemic to COVID-19 |
title_sort | gender-based violence, twin pandemic to covid-19 |
topic | Symposium: COVID-19, Globalization, Health Disparities and Social Policy |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7723732/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920520975465 |
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