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  • A Dangerous Dichotomy: Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work During COVID-19

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  November 11, 2020  //  By Sara Matthews
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    “While the global crisis has increased demand for research, such opportunities have created inequalities and distortion in the scientific community,” write the authors of a recent Social Science Research Network (SSRN) study that examines the gendered impact of COVID-19 in academia. The study finds that COVID-19 has disproportionately penalized the scientific productivity of female academics.

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  • Knowledge Keepers: Why We Need Indigenous Midwives

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  October 7, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. In celebration, the Maternal Health Initiative is publishing a series of articles to recognize the importance of these two professions towards improving maternal and women’s health outcomes and to illuminate the impact made by both nurses and midwives the world over.

    “We need more Indigenous midwives,” said Claire Dion Fletcher, an Indigenous Potawatomi-Lenape Registered Midwife and co-chair of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM), at a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives about Indigenous midwifery. Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than white women, while in Australia the risk is four and a half times higher.

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  • A National Reckoning: Highlights From A Conversation with Congresswoman Alma Adams

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  July 31, 2020  //  By Amanda King

    Congresswoman Adams_235x176“I believe that we’re experiencing a national reckoning and in this unique moment, I definitely see an opportunity for Congress, but also for our local governments to enact policies that begin to address our country’s greatest ills,” said Representative Alma Adams (D-NC-12) at a recent Wilson Center event on women, race, and COVID-19 in the United States. “COVID-19 has revealed what the Black community and communities of color have known for a long time—health outcomes are further compounded by systemic and structural racism. COVID-19 has exposed what women have known for a long time—gender inequality exists, it threatens economic empowerment, and it increases vulnerabilities.” 

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  • Women, Race, and COVID-19: A Conversation with Representative Alma Adams

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 15, 2020  //  By Amanda King
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    “The pandemic has shown us in the starkest terms how wide the gaps are in health outcomes between Black and White America and between men and women,” said Representative Alma Adams (D-NC-12) at a recent Wilson Center event on women, race, and COVID-19 in the United States. “COVID-19 has revealed what the Black community and communities of color have known for a long time, health outcomes are further compounded by systemic and structural racism,” said Rep. Alma Adams. And COVID-19 has exposed what women have known for a long time. Gender inequality exists, it threatens economic empowerment, and it increases vulnerabilities.

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  • Non-Communicable Diseases and COVID-19: A Conversation With Dr. Belén Garijo and Dr. Felicia Knaul

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  June 12, 2020  //  By Amanda King

    Belen-&-Felicia-NSB-(1)“NCDs have raised the risk of and the severity of the COVID-19 infection,” says Dr. Belén Garijo, Executive Board Member and CEO of Healthcare at Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany, in this week’s Friday Podcast. Women living with NCDs like cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, mental health disorders, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes, have an increased risk of severe complications and death from COVID-19. “When you take a look at the mortality rate for one million inhabitants, you see a lot of diversity, and what has been consistent amongst all the countries is the association between severity of the infection and underlying diseases,” says Garijo.

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  • The Unseen Side of Pregnancy: Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health (New Report)

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    CODE BLUE  //  Dot-Mom  //  June 3, 2020  //  By Sarah Barnes, Deekshita Ramanarayanan & Nazra Amin

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    Around the world, approximately 18 million women of reproductive age die each year because of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and two in every three deaths among women are due to an NCD. In fact, NCDs have been the leading cause of death among women globally for at least the past 30 years. And yet, women’s specific needs are often excluded from conversations about NCDs. They are underrepresented in clinical research and the effect of NCDs on women in particular is rarely considered. NCD-related symptoms during pregnancy are commonly misinterpreted or dismissed by clinicians.

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  • COVID-19 Shines Spotlight on Race and Gender Inequities in Healthcare

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 12, 2020  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    “While COVID-19 has wreaked havoc the world over, history has proven, and recent data agrees that the hardest hit will be the world’s women and girls and populations already impacted by racism and discrimination,” said Sarah Barnes, Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative and Women and Gender Advisor at the Wilson Center, at a recent event on the impact of COVID-19 on race and gender inequities. Coronavirus has hurt women and girls in many ways. Among them, women have been pushed back into the home.  And healthcare workers and caregivers who are mostly women are jeopardizing their own health, caring for others.

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  • First Ever State of the World’s Nursing Report: Unlocking the Gender Dimensions

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  April 30, 2020  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan
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    “The year is 2020 and it’s a year none of us will forget due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Sarah Barnes, Women and Gender Advisor and Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative at the Wilson Center at a recent webcasted Wilson Center event. “The year 2020, as designated by the World Health Organization, is also the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and was meant to be a year of celebration and much due recognition of these two incredible professions.” This month, the first ever State of the World’s Nursing report was published by the World Health Organization (WHO), International Council of Nurses, and Nursing Now.

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