دانلود کتاب Report on Covid and Gender: Case of Lithuania

This report shed the light on negative consequences of COVID-19 pandemic
more often experienced by women in Lithuanian society due to structural gender
inequalities such as pay gap, care gap, pension gap, life expectancy gap and
other structural reasons. On the one hand, women’s unemployment grew significantly
faster than men’s, because they mostly work in the sectors, which
were partially or completely closed during the quarantine period. On the other
hand the risk to be infected by COVID-19 was higher to women because they
mostly occupy the professions in health care and social work. Additionally,
women mainly work in the grocery shops, drug stores and other places where
work at home is not an option. Working mothers twice often than men experienced
difficulties to balance work and caring duties while working at home
when their children also stayed at home due to closed schools, kindergartens
and informal education activities. Most often women are single parents and
experienced more difficulties in labour market and taking care of their children.
During pandemic their risk to poverty increased. COVID-19 pandemic had its
negative effect on dynamics of domestic violence in Lithuania. Though in 2020
there were less registered crimes of domestic violence than in 2019, but number
of murders at home increase from 21 cases in 2019 to 28 cases in 2020 as well
as numbers on severe health impairment. Some experts noted that due to
quarantine people were forced to isolation and this made an impact on increase
of domestic violence but decrease in reporting about it.