Coronavirus has people working from home, which could have long-term benefits for women
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus has people working from home, which could have long-term benefits for women

ABC  

Heather Renton never planned on working from home, let alone starting up her own organisation. Since then, Ms Renton has been working from a home office next to Rebecca's playroom, running Syndromes Without A Name — the organisation she founded to support other parents of children with undiagnosed or rare genetic conditions. "Sometimes I think we're stuck still doing things the way we always have done them because no one's thought to change," she said. The biggest workforce change since WWII Economist Tim Harcourt said the seismic change in the way Australia works since the pandemic broke out is comparable only to World War II, when the government drafted women into jobs traditionally held by men. "You've got these two worlds, and these two identities, and if you can bring them together in any way, women will bend over backwards to make that work."

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Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Working from home is producing economic benefits return-to-office rules would quash

ABC  

More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. The jump in working from home Before the pandemic, in 2019, the share of the workforce who usually work at least partly from home was 25 per cent. The proportion of mothers with children under five working at least partly from home has leapt from 31 …

Remote working allowed more women to take up jobs during the pandemic
3 years, 1 month ago

Remote working allowed more women to take up jobs during the pandemic

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The number of women aged between 25 and 44 who are in work in 2021 has …

Coronavirus likely to lock India’s women out of job market for years
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus likely to lock India’s women out of job market for years

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Savitri Devi has been searching for work since she lost her job at a garment factory in New Delhi, along with half her co-workers, when sales plummeted at the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year. "Whatever social and economic gains Indian women had made in the last decade, it has been largely wiped out during the COVID …

Covid-19 has killed 18% MORE men than women in the UK
3 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19 has killed 18% MORE men than women in the UK

Daily Mail  

Coronavirus has killed 18 per cent more men than women over the course of the pandemic in England and Wales, official statistics show. The Office for National Statistics report found that the gender gap in Covid deaths was widest during the first wave, when 30 per cent more men died, before it narrowed during the summer and then grew again …

How coronavirus is setting women’s rights back decades
3 years, 10 months ago

How coronavirus is setting women’s rights back decades

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Of parents surveyed by the Fawcett Society and Women’s Budget Group, 15 per cent of mothers …

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Forced Us to Recognize Gender Inequities
4 years ago

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Forced Us to Recognize Gender Inequities

News 18  

The pandemic has completely upended the world as we know it. An ILO report published earlier in December has revealed that challenges of the pandemic and work from home issues have thrown women’s lives off-gear completely. The deadly disruption to our lives in the year gone by must be recognised and used to not only break the mould but also …

Working from home has changed the lives of many of India’s women
4 years, 1 month ago

Working from home has changed the lives of many of India’s women

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Yet a surprising bright spot …

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women
4 years, 2 months ago

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women

NPR  

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women Enlarge this image toggle caption Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images Women are seeing the fabric of their lives unravel during the pandemic. Women are back in 1988 The pandemic's female exodus has decidedly turned back the clock by at least a generation, with the share of women in the workforce down …

How the coronavirus crisis threatens to set back women’s careers
4 years, 3 months ago

How the coronavirus crisis threatens to set back women’s careers

Live Mint  

Kate Deisseroth spent two decades building a career as an orthopedic surgeon that now, in the Covid era, looks precarious. Dr. Deisseroth has no illusions about the consequences of such a drastic move: “As a surgeon, you can’t take a year or two off and go back in, so it would kind of be the end of that career.” Seven …

How women are feeling the economic impacts of coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

How women are feeling the economic impacts of coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — The economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected women by almost every measure. And, in the United States, the economic downturn is hitting women of color the hardest, according to C. Nicole Mason, president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. So when we think about rebuilding an economy or women re-entering the …

More women should lead Africa’s coronavirus response
4 years, 5 months ago

More women should lead Africa’s coronavirus response

Al Jazeera  

Women are primary caregivers in their communities. And while some might say debating gender statistics during a global health crisis is pointless, I believe it is the perfect time to focus on why more women’s leadership is needed – at decision-making tables, in high-level policy conversations, running community-level initiatives and serving in the highest positions of international health organisations. However, …

Coronavirus crisis drives gender inequality with women ‘almost twice as likely as men’ to have lost jobs
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus crisis drives gender inequality with women ‘almost twice as likely as men’ to have lost jobs

The Independent  

The coronavirus crisis is driving gender inequality with women almost twice as likely as men to have lost their job during the pandemic, a new survey suggests. Researchers at the University of Exeter’s Business School discovered 7 per cent of women had been made redundant during the lockdown in comparison to 4 per cent of men. The report, which polled …

How Covid-19 is changing women’s lives
4 years, 6 months ago

How Covid-19 is changing women’s lives

BBC  

How Covid-19 is changing women’s lives Getty Images As working mums perform more childcare and face increased job insecurity, there are fears Covid-19 has undone decades of advancement. “It’s a trend we’re seeing now, not three months ago,” says Allyson Zimmermann, a Zurich-based executive director for Catalyst, a non-profit that works to improve corporate workplaces for women. “If you’re made …

How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap
4 years, 6 months ago

How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap

NPR  

How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap Enlarge this image toggle caption Mamie Brown Mamie Brown Mamie Brown is getting up earlier than ever these days.​ "A typical day for me starts about 4:30 to 5:00. Sponsor Message Coronavirus has women doing even more work at home The challenge of juggling work and raising kids has only increased during …

Most workers want 'hybrid' jobs at the office and at home after coronavirus, study finds
4 years, 6 months ago

Most workers want 'hybrid' jobs at the office and at home after coronavirus, study finds

ABC  

Most Australian workers want to return to their physical office after coronavirus restrictions loosen, a study has found. Key points: The survey shows how coronavirus has changed our attitudes to work Up to 60 per cent of respondents want to split their working time between home and office Older workers were least willing to return to the office in any …

Women Bear the Brunt of Coronavirus Fallout in Workplace as Lockdowns Shock Economies
4 years, 6 months ago

Women Bear the Brunt of Coronavirus Fallout in Workplace as Lockdowns Shock Economies

News 18  

The reverberating economic shock of the coronavirus crisis has delivered a massive setback for women because so many work in the badly exposed services sector, experts say. The nature of the outbreak means women are more likely than men to lose or quit their jobs in vulnerable low-paying workplaces like bars, conference venues, hairdressing salons, hotels, pubs and restaurants, which …

Coronavirus impact: Check pros and cons of post pandemic work from home
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus impact: Check pros and cons of post pandemic work from home

India Today  

The changing dynamics of the workspace landscape under the pressure of Covid-19 outbreak has put a halt to the long debate on whether allowing employees to work from home augments their productivity or curtails it, by putting it to a practical test overnight, that too on a world-wide scale. With digital offices becoming the new normal in 2020, companies all …

Coronavirus has prompted both men and women to do more housework — and nobody's happy about it, new data shows
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus has prompted both men and women to do more housework — and nobody's happy about it, new data shows

ABC  

The gender gap between men and women has narrowed during the coronavirus crisis — but not in a good way, with both genders now more unhappy with their domestic workload. Respondents answer: "I feel rushed or pressed for time" Pre-COVID Now Men Women Men Women Never 2.76 0.33 4.23 2.92 Seldom 10.34 1.84 21.13 18.36 Sometimes 35.17 23.71 26.76 27.96 …

Mothers doing extra 31 hours more housework each week than before coronavirus chaos, study finds
4 years, 7 months ago

Mothers doing extra 31 hours more housework each week than before coronavirus chaos, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Researchers found women with children across these countries now spend an average of 65 hours a …

Coronavirus has left Australian women anxious, overworked, insecure — and worse off than men again
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus has left Australian women anxious, overworked, insecure — and worse off than men again

ABC  

Political leaders have found it hard to resist the temptation of characterising the COVID-19 pandemic in military terms. "World War II was a driver of female empowerment," says Bianca Hartge Hazelman, founder and editor of Financy, which tracks women's financial independence. The social and economic commentator George Megalogenis has dubbed the COVID-19 contraction a "pink-collar recession", pointing out that unlike …

Coronavirus may trap women in the ‘safe haven’ of the home
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus may trap women in the ‘safe haven’ of the home

Live Mint  

In conversations about safety, we assume that all the dangers that women face lie beyond the threshold of the home. The chairperson of the National Commission for Women in India reported that in the first week after the lockdown started they received twice the complaints they received in the first week of March. The law covers ‘domestic relationships’ and this …

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses
4 years, 8 months ago

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses

NPR  

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses Enlarge this image toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP Nam Y. Huh/AP Very briefly, at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, there were slightly more women on American nonfarm payrolls than men. Sponsor Message Usually, the line bumps around near or just below zero — meaning men's unemployment is usually …

Coronavirus recession will hit women harder, experts warn
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus recession will hit women harder, experts warn

Al Jazeera  

Crystal Crawford, 34, loves her job as a social worker at a nonprofit private school for children who have experienced homelessness. People who thought they had it all together - right now, we’re struggling to maintain our households by Crystal Crawford, social worker and part-time childcare provider ‘Well-worn path of inequality’ Of course, it is not just healthcare workers who …

Young adults, women and low earners most financially exposed to coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

Young adults, women and low earners most financially exposed to coronavirus

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While the huge and rapid emergency measures introduced by …

Coronavirus has made us all learn to work from home, so why not Parliament too?
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus has made us all learn to work from home, so why not Parliament too?

ABC  

We live in a time of rapid escalation. "My bad," said Government Services Minister Stuart Robert on Tuesday, explaining he hadn't quite registered in advance how busy Centrelink's website might immediately become when the economy was placed under sedation at the weekend Loading. Stay up-to-date on the coronavirus outbreak Download the ABC News app and subscribe to our range of …

Involve women in the battle against Covid-19
4 years, 9 months ago

Involve women in the battle against Covid-19

Hindustan Times  

We have seen it in earlier outbreaks of various viruses from nipah to ebola — the gender impact on the progression of the disease is considerable, yet largely neglected. An NGO worker distributes masks to bus drivers and conductors, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 19, 2020 But, as studies quoted in Lancet and undertaken by the World Health Organization showed during …

House Cleaners Are Out Of Work And Unprotected During The Coronavirus Outbreak
4 years, 9 months ago

House Cleaners Are Out Of Work And Unprotected During The Coronavirus Outbreak

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Lourdes Dobarganes, 54, works for over a dozen families in the San Francisco Bay area as a house cleaner, babysitter and caretaker for seniors. Dobarganes is one of 2 million domestic workers across the country — house cleaners, nannies and homecare workers — who will likely face similar situations of being asked to not come in to …

If you're working from home during the coronavirus outbreak, who's responsible for your safety?
4 years, 9 months ago

If you're working from home during the coronavirus outbreak, who's responsible for your safety?

ABC  

More and more employees in Australia are being encouraged or directed to work from home in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. "If it is not safe, and often we work in non-ideal home workspaces, then employers should not let employees work in that space." "Employers could find a way to let employees salary sacrifice purchasing office furniture or provide …

Not That Many Americans Can Actually Work From Home During The Coronavirus Outbreak
4 years, 9 months ago

Not That Many Americans Can Actually Work From Home During The Coronavirus Outbreak

Huff Post  

Fewer than 1 in 3 American workers can telework. JaruekChairak via Getty Images As the coronavirus outbreak spreads, more and more companies are urging their employees to work from home to help limit transmission. pic.twitter.com/UVSrlxshSI — Heidi Shierholz March 13, 2020 More than 60% of workers in management, business and finance had the ability to work from home at least …

Coronavirus: Women could be disproportionately exposed to outbreak, experts warn
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Women could be disproportionately exposed to outbreak, experts warn

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Frances O’Grady, TUC general secretary, said: “The majority of our frontline care workers are women, putting …

Laundry Between Emails: Working From Home Goes Viral In The Time Of Coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

Laundry Between Emails: Working From Home Goes Viral In The Time Of Coronavirus

NPR  

Laundry Between Emails: Working From Home Goes Viral In The Time Of Coronavirus Enlarge this image Malte Mueller/Getty Images/fStop Malte Mueller/Getty Images/fStop Early one morning last week, Cindy Ruiz joined the ranks of newly remote workers, now millions strong. The financial data firm where Ruiz works in sales closed its office after reports of coronavirus cases near San Mateo, Calif. …

You told us how a coronavirus outbreak could affect your job
4 years, 10 months ago

You told us how a coronavirus outbreak could affect your job

ABC  

Already, workplaces are making plans for the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak in Australia, given the worst-case scenario would require people to work from home. S Anderson told us that no preparations had been made at their workplace: "They just said that our workers currently overseas wouldn't be allowed back to work for two weeks, and we are all casual …

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