Canada’s GENDER Pandemic Response – Analysis of How Canada Measured Up

Direct Link to Full 66-PAGE 2023 Report: Canada’s gender pandemic response: Did it measure up? (policyalternatives.ca)

Canada introduced unprecedented relief measures in the early days of the pandemic to offset the huge losses resulting from necessary public health closures. Looking back, how did those measures stack up? Did they address the pandemic’s heavy toll on women and other marginalized communities?

Canada’s federal response to the gendered impacts of the pandemic was on par with other high-income countries. Roughly 30 per cent of programs introduced between March 2020 and June 2021 were “gender-sensitive” defined as measures that addressed, in full or in part, gendered risks associated with the pandemic including increased violence, low income and precarity, and heightened care demands. However, these programs represented just 13% of total pandemic spending.

Извор: WUNRN – 16.04.2023