RT @SophieRunning: If we are to learn from this crisis how to make decisions and policies that work better for everyone in the future, lesson number one must be that being female results in different experiences and needs from being male. Sex ...
RT @RachelSmethers: Covid-19 is not only a health emergency. It’s a socio-economic crisis. And women are bearing the brunt - as nurses, paid & unpaid carers & in abusive homes. Govt must use sex & ethnicity aggravated data. Fab feminist ...
RT @fawcettsociety: “We need to recognise unpaid care as work, we now appreciate that our society depends on it.” - @CCriadoPerez, #CoronaConversation... #InvisibleWomen
RT @OurWomensWrites: Thank you Mary-Ann for highlighting the problems with predicted grades being used as they disadvantage women, those with disabilities, those from BAME backgrounds. @fawcettsociety #coronaconversation...
RT @SophieRunning: "The crisis has exposed underlying problems in the economy: the fact that the economic system doesn't work for women who are more likely to be poor, earn far less, have caring responsibilities" -Mary Anne Stephenson from ...
RT @carobee: Too many assumptions are being made about the facilities available to families for home schooling, not every household has access to a laptop or a private place to study - Prof Mary-Ann Stephenson @WomensBudgetGrp #CoronaConversation...
RT @carobee: 77% of people in high risk of infection jobs such as health and social care, catering, cleaning are women, notes Prof Mary-Ann Stephenson @WomensBudgetGrp #CoronaConversation... https://t.co/KiNbUP...
RT @gemrosenblatt: Pregnant women receiving mixed messages says Mary-Ann @WomensBudgetGrp Many having to take unpaid leave rather than being furloughed. Migrant women still having to pay for maternity healthcare. This causes debt that works against ...
RT @gemrosenblatt: Pragna Patel from @SBSisters telling @fawcettsociety event that migrant women who were already fearful are even more fearful about going out in case they're questioned. Need to give them dignity, security and equality ...
RT @SBSisters: Pragna Patel calls out the UK Gov's failure to address domestic abuse & violence against women & girls in response to #COVID19 "It is not an unknown that in situations of conflict, crisis & emergencies, violence ...
RT @gemrosenblatt: Pragna Patel from @SBSisters telling @fawcettsociety event that domestic abuse is rising and an immediate response is needed - first step is safe spaces. Emergency accommodation is needed. #CoronaConversation...
RT @fawcettsociety: “It’s not just a medical crisis, we need to look at the outbreak through an intersectional lens... For many women home is their least safe place. We shouldn’t have to argue that women need to be visible, it shows how far we still ...
RT @SophieRunning: "We're looking at the disease as a medical model, not through an intersectional lens" so lacking gendered analysis or understanding of contributory economic conditions - Pragna Patel from @SBSisters on govt's 'criminal and immoral' ...
RT @gemrosenblatt: .@CCriadoPerez talking in @fawcettsociety zoom event about UK being one of few countries not collecting sex disaggregated data on coronavirus and the problems with this. #CoronaConversation...
RT @fawcettsociety: “We don’t have personal protective equipment (PPE) that is designed for women even though the majority of key workers in high risk roles are women. Their lives are being put at risk because they are less protected.” - ...
Here are four posts relating to @UKLabour - You ignore us at your peril - speech by one of our co-founders @kiritunks at the recent #ExpelMe rally https://t.co/ftAs3U...
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RT @Samsmethers: @lnmackenzie1 @fawcettsociety @CCriadoPerez @SBSisters @WomensBudgetGrp Yes. We have always maintained the need for sex disaggregated data. It is part of our joint campaign call which we are working on with a number of partner orgs. ...
RT @lnmackenzie1: @fawcettsociety @Samsmethers @CCriadoPerez @SBSisters @WomensBudgetGrp Given the differing impacts of Covid-19 on men and women, will the Fawcett Society consider co-ordinating and publishing a multi-signatory letter highlighting ...
Sex matters. https://t.co/SasHFa...
Marie-Paule Kieny French virologist. Directed research into the swine flu epidemic and led search for Ebola vaccines in West African outbreak. Oversaw the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and guidance on proper use of antibiotics to limit the ...
Marie-Paule Kieny French virologist. Directed research into the swine flu epidemic and led search for Ebola vaccines in West African outbreak. Oversaw the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and guidance on proper use of antibiotics to limit the ...