Today, we shall be talking about an article by @DaveEvansPhD in @CGDev on how COVID-19 shall affect women and girls in low and middle income countries https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-will-covid-19-affect-women-and-girls-low-and-middle-income-countries (1/n)

The article on the outset states that " Emerging evidence suggests that more men than women are dying, potentially due to sex-based immunological or gendered differences, such as patterns and prevalence of smoking" (2/n)

Further, the article refers to a research study of 1000+ patients in China which showed that close to 41.9% patients were female. However, as the article suggests women will be more affected in those areas having more women health workers (3/n)

For instance, in China close to 3000 women health workers have been infected out of which 22 have died which signifies that the impact on women health workers might be more as the pandemic spreads across globally. (4/n)

The article also suggests that closure of schools shall impact women as well due to women taking up the primary responsibilities for children in many societies (5/n)

The travel restrictions shall also have a negative impact on female domestic workers depending on the population distribution. For example, Liberia has 70% of its small scale traders as women and hence during the Ebola outbreak women were disproportionately affected (6/n)

Higher rate of maternal mortality can be expected due to disproportionate loss of health workers (7/n)

The article also notes that " When women have less decision-making power than men, either in households or in government, then women’s needs during an epidemic are less likely to be met" (n/n)