Alison O Connor: Covid has reduced women to a 1950s gender stereotype
Alison O Connor asks why women have been the ones to pick up most, if not all, of the slack when it comes to childcare, home schooling and keeping the household running during Covid
Even mothers who have not been economically affected by the pandemic will say the pressure has been huge trying to keep on top of working, schooling, the laundry, cooking and keeping the kids on an even keel, while mostly failing to find any spare personal moments at all.
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It’s been described as the shadow pandemic the way in which the lives of women have been so disproportionately affected by Covid, all the way from the boardroom to the kitchen table. Those effects stretch from the near-impossible juggling of work and home schooling, to worldwide increases in domestic abuse and child marriages.
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Publishing date: Mar 05, 2021 • March 5, 2021 • 3 minute read • Local author Emma Pivato with her collection of mystery books she s written on display at Audreys Books in Edmonton, March 2, 2021. Photo by Ed Kaiser /Postmedia
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Murder, mysteries and advocacy make strange bedfellows.
Edmonton author Emma Pivato has made it her goal to combine her love of mystery novels with a lifelong passion of advocating for individuals with disabilities. Her protagonist, Claire Burke, calls Edmonton home and locations within the city play host to benign backdrops and dangerous locales.
The country is set for another year of staycations with fewer than one-in-six (15.9pc) Irish people intending to holiday overseas in 2021, a survey carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has found.
In November 2020, 50.6pc of respondents anticipated their next international flight would be sometime in 2021. However, in February 2021, this expectation was reported by 15.9pc of respondents.
About 40pc of people said they intended to take a holiday in the Republic of Ireland for at least one week’s duration in 2021, in comparison with the proportion of respondents (30.9pc) that said they took such a holiday in a typical year prior to the onset of Covid-19.
The number of people expecting to travel internationally this year has fallen dramatically since the onset of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Almost 16% of the public now say they intend to travel abroad this year, but the figure has fallen sharply since Ireland entered its third lockdown in late December.
A new study by the Central Statistics Office has also shown a people are broadly positive about taking the Covid-19 vaccine, with 87% saying they would take it next week if available.
Almost nine in ten (87.0%) respondents yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine said they would get vaccinated next week if it were possiblehttps://t.co/0vIqRp5gFK#CSOIreland#Ireland#COVIDIreland#Health#SocialImpactpic.twitter.com/5UKxIQtJ3g Central Statistics Office Ireland (@CSOIreland) March 1, 2021
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