COVID- 19 and Female Health-Care Workers: An Exploration of Challenges

Abstract

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge unabated across the world, an important dimension to the entire health-care architecture is the challenge faced by female health-care workers. The risks and rigors involved in the care of Covid-19 patients are enormous both for female and male health-care workers and professionals. However, female health-care workers face more complex challenges like having to deal with work-life balance, inadequate representation in senior policy planning structures of health-care institutions and in many cases being at a disadvantageous position in situations of unpaid leave. This paper through in-depth interviews of female health-care workers will try to explore the multiple challenges they face and what can be done to ensure gender equity in the health-care architecture.