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Author: Pauline Cullen , Associate Professor Department of Sociology Maynooth University
“The majority of healthcare workers are women, and both paid and unpaid caring roles mostly fall to women as well. Then there is the additional challenge of increased pressure on the domestic front,” writes campaign group Covid Women’s Voices, a diverse range of female healthcare workers, teachers, academics, lawyers and others that observe daily the gendered realities of the pandemic. This group echoes calls from feminist organisations including the National Women’s Council that women’s voices are insufficiently heard during the pandemic.
The facts bear out their lived experience. Ireland ranks 101st in the world for women’s parliamentary representation. Successive and severe lockdowns have closed schools, childcare and supports for older people and those with disabilities for long periods of time placing significant burdens on women. Inconceivably, there are no women on Ireland’s governmental committees on Health and Covid-19.
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