Advances and setbacks in health gender gaps and the respective SDGs in the postpandemic

ABSTRACT

Quarantines implemented to face COVID-19 has affected workers in very different ways, and especially women, who make up the majority of the workforce in health facilities in the world, and their role as health personnel adds a triple burden longer shifts at work, assistance in the education of children and domestic work in the home;But they are also part of the informal sector of the economy, which has turned out to be one of the most affected by the imposed social quarantine, which has had very negative consequences at the socio-economic level, especially affecting those workers who do not enjoy protection mechanisms. Social. Those women who were able to continue working, in many cases had to improvise a teleworking station at home, which is an unplanned situation, without preparation and for which many countries lack specific regulations. These new teleworkers had not been prepared for this, they had not agreed on this condition with their employers and they do not have optimal working conditions for this modality and although teleworking is considered suitable for women insofar as it could help to reconcile life. The truth is that many women are reluctant to adopt it. Another angle of the problem is constituted by the indirect effects of quarantine on family life, which presents an unusual increase in domestic violence, with a particular impact on violence against women. gender, finding that 243 million women and girls between 15-49 years of age have been subjected to sexual or psychological violence in the last 12 months.