Using gender analysis matrixes to integrate a gender lens into infectious diseases outbreaks research

Morgan, Rosemary, Davies, Sara E., Feng, Huiyun, Gan, Connie C.R., Grépin, Karen A., Harman, Sophie, Herten-Crabb, Asha ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8109, Smith, Julia and Wenham, Clare ORCID: 0000-0001-5378-3203 (2022) Using gender analysis matrixes to integrate a gender lens into infectious diseases outbreaks research. Health Policy and Planning, 37 (7). 935 - 941. ISSN 1460-2237

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Abstract

Evidence shows that infectious disease outbreaks are not gender-neutral, meaning that women, men and gender minorities are differentially affected. This evidence affirms the need to better incorporate a gender lens into infectious disease outbreaks. Despite this evidence, there has been a historic neglect of gender-based analysis in health, including during health crises. Recognizing the lack of available evidence on gender and pandemics in early 2020 the Gender and COVID-19 project set out to use a gender analysis matrix to conduct rapid, real-time analyses while the pandemic was unfolding to examine the gendered effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This paper reports on what a gender analysis matrix is, how it can be used to systematically conduct a gender analysis, how it was implemented within the study, ways in which the findings from the matrix were applied and built upon, and challenges encountered when using the matrix methodology.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://academic.oup.com/heapol
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	Health Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2022 16:27
Last Modified:	29 Oct 2025 07:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116033

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