Abstract
OPINION article Front. Sociol., 06 November 2020Sec. Race and Ethnicity Volume 5 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.588279
Highlights
There is increasing recognition that COVID-19 has exposed and entrenched racial, gender, and class inequalities that have long been neglected across the globe (Ahmed et al, 2020)
The evidence of women’s care labor is unequivocal: globally, women are responsible for the majority (76.2%) of unpaid care work, spending an average of 201 days on unpaid work during a year, compared to 63 days spent on unpaid work by men (International Labour Organization, 2018a)
Ensuring personal protective equipment and conducting gender pay gap analysis within the health and social care sectors may be a useful way of ensuring women are paid what they are worth, and that gaps in pay—which are linked to gender norms and penalties imposed on women for caregiving—are decreased, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Summary
There is increasing recognition that COVID-19 has exposed and entrenched racial, gender, and class inequalities that have long been neglected across the globe (Ahmed et al, 2020). We examine emerging evidence on women’s labor, highlighting the limitations of COVID-19 responses that do not consider intersections between race, gender and class.
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